Taenia solium cysticercosis and taeniasis in urban settings: Epidemiological evidence from a health-center based study among people with epilepsy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

• Main Authors: Veronika Schmidt (Author), Marie-Claire O'Hara (Author), Bernard Ngowi (Author), Karl-Heinz Herbinger (Author), John Noh (Author), Patricia Procell Wilkins (Author), Vivien Richter (Author), Christian Kositz (Author), William Matuja (Author), Andrea Sylvia Winkler (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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In Africa, urbanization is happening faster than ever before which results in new implications for transmission of infectious diseases. For the zoonotic parasite Taenia solium, a major cause of acquired epilepsy in endemic countries, the prevalence in urban settings is unknown. The present study inv...