Prevalence of and Factors Associated with Human Cysticercosis in 60 Villages in Three Provinces of Burkina Faso.

• Main Authors: Hélène Carabin (Author), Athanase Millogo (Author), Assana Cissé (Author), Sarah Gabriël (Author), Ida Sahlu (Author), Pierre Dorny (Author), Cici Bauer (Author), Zekiba Tarnagda (Author), Linda D Cowan (Author), Rasmané Ganaba (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Taenia solium, a zoonotic infection transmitted between humans and pigs, is considered an emerging infection in Sub-Saharan Africa, yet individual and community-level factors associated with the human infection with the larval stages (cysticercosis) are not well understood. This study aims to estima...