Tapeworm infection resulting from pork eaten at a wedding banquet.
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health
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1997 ; 28 Suppl 1(): 20-1
Article
in English
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-32974
ABSTRACT
Forty-five people who had attended a wedding banquet were examined by means of both Avidin-Biotin Peroxidase Complex-ELISA (ABC-ELISA) and Kato stool thick smear technic. The results revealed that the positive rates with ABC-ELISA were 15.56% (7/45) and Kato Katz 0.62% (1/161). There was a significant difference between the two positive rates (p < 0.005). Six people at the wedding had taeniasis and 4 of them also had cysticercosis. Local people have no habit of eating uncooked pork, but at this banquet the meat from an infected cysticerci pig was used for preparing dishes for the wedding feast and the cold dishes were contaminated by the bladder worms as the result of using the same chopping block.
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IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Parasite Egg Count
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Swine
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Humans
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Cysticercosis
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China
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Disease Outbreaks
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Food Parasitology
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Feces
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Animals
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Meat Products
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Journal:
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health
Year:
1997
Type:
Article
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