Human Neurocysticercosis Case and an Endemic Focus of Taenia solium in Lao PDR
The Korean Journal of Parasitology
;
: 599-602, 2013.
Artigo
em Inglês
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-155348
ABSTRACT
A male patient with neurocysticercosis was identified in Montai Village, Xay District, Oudomxay Province, Lao PDR in February 2004. He had a history of diagnosis for neurocysticercosis by a CT scan in Thailand after an onset of epileptic seizure in 1993. A pig in the same district was found to contain Taenia solium metacestodes (=cysticerci); the slaughtered pig body contained more than 2,000 cysticerci. In addition to morphological identification, molecular identification was also performed on the cysticerci by DNA sequencing analysis of the mitochondrial cox1 gene; they were confirmed as T. solium metacestodes. The patient is regarded as an indigenous case of neurocysticercosis infected in an endemic focus of T. solium taeniasis/cysticercosis in Oudomxay Province, Lao PDR.
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Assunto principal:
Suínos
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Doenças dos Suínos
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Fatores de Risco
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Análise de Sequência de DNA
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Complexo IV da Cadeia de Transporte de Elétrons
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Neurocisticercose
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Cysticercus
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Taenia solium
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Laos
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Mitocôndrias
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo de etiologia
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Estudo prognóstico
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Fatores de risco
Limite:
Animais
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Humanos
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Masculino
País/Região como assunto:
Ásia
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
The Korean Journal of Parasitology
Ano de publicação:
2013
Tipo de documento:
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