Taenia solium cysticercosis: the case of Cuba

Kirezi Kanobana; Aniran Ruiz; Lazara Rojas; Rene Andrade; Felix Rosado; Katja Polman; Fidel Angel Núñez

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0002202

Taenia solium cysticercosis: the case of Cuba

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2013 Jul 11;7(7):e2202. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002202. eCollection 2013.

Authors

Kirezi Kanobana¹, Aniran Ruiz, Lazara Rojas, Rene Andrade, Felix Rosado, Katja Polman, Fidel Angel Núñez

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. kkanobana@itg.be

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Animals
Cuba / epidemiology
Cysticercosis / epidemiology*
Cysticercosis / parasitology
Cysticercosis / veterinary*
Female
Humans
Male
Swine
Taenia solium / isolation & purification*
Young Adult
Zoonoses / epidemiology*
Zoonoses / parasitology

Grants and funding

The study was funded by the Belgian development Cooperation as part of the Framework Agreement 3 programme between the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp and the Instituto Pedro Kouri in Havana. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.