Strategies for the elimination of taeniasis/cysticercosis.

Abstract

Advances in the field of neurocysticercosis continue to shape our understanding of the disease and our efforts to control it. Several attempts have been made to eradicate the disease with active interventions such as changing domestic pig-raising practices, mass chemotherapy of porcine cysticercosis and taeniasis, selective detection and treatment of taeniasis, and community health education. Moreover, ongoing progress in the diagnosis of taeniasis and the development of a porcine vaccine against cysticercosis in Australia, Mexico and Peru has yielded at least one effective vaccine that is currently available. Thus far, however, attempted interventions have only been successful in temporarily disrupting transmission of the disease. Controlled data on the efficacy and acceptability of the different interventions is urgently needed to provide a base-line schematic for intervention which could later be tailored to each particular endemic scenario.

• Authors: Héctor H García, Armando E González, Oscar H Del Brutto, Victor C W Tsang, Fernando Llanos-Zavalaga, Guillermo Gonzalvez, Jaime Romero, Robert H Gilman, Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru
• Journal: Journal of the neurological sciences (J Neurol Sci) Vol. 262 Issue 1-2 Pg. 153-7 (Nov 15 2007) ISSN: 0022-510X [Print] Netherlands
• PMID: 17681546 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Review)

Chemical References

• Anticestodal Agents
• Vaccines

Topics

• Animals
• Anticestodal Agents (therapeutic use)
• Brain (parasitology, pathology)
• Health Education
• Humans
• Neurocysticercosis (drug therapy, pathology, prevention & control)
• Parasitic Diseases, Animal (drug therapy)
• Peru (epidemiology)
• Sus scrofa (parasitology)
• Swine Diseases (drug therapy)
• Taeniasis (drug therapy, epidemiology, prevention & control)
• Vaccines (standards, therapeutic use)