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Taenia solium

Known as: Tapeworm, Pork, tapeworm pork, soliums, Taenia 
A species of parasitic cestodes in the genus Taenia that is acquired through the ingestion of infected porcine tissue. Humans are the definitive host… 
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Taenia solium taeniasis and cysticercosis in three communities in north Vietnam
Objectives  (1) To investigate the response to a serum antigen‐detecting ELISA for cysticercosis and a stool coproantigen test… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
The Mitochondrial Genome of the Tapeworm Taenia solium: A Finding of the Abbreviated Stop Codon U
The complete nucleotide sequence of the tapeworm Taenia solium mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has been determined. The sequence is 13… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Immunology of Infectious Diseases
Whether an infectious disease agent is an “old acquaintance” or a new, emerging threat, the immune system’s battle against it is… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
COMPARISON OF CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN TAENIA SOLIUM AND TAENIA SAGINATA AND AN IMPROVED POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION-RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM ASSAY USING A…
Given the constraints of classical diagnostic methods, i.e., morphological and isoenzymatic studies of proglottids, a polymerase… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Use of sentinel pigs to monitor environmental Taenia solium contamination. The Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru (CWG).
We tested a novel approach to assay Taenia solium prevalence using the enzyme-linked immunoelectrotransfer blot assay in sentinel… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Praziquantel treatment of porcine brain and muscle Taenia solium cysticercosis. 1. Radiological, physiological and histopathological studies.
Porcine Taenia solium cysticercosis, recognized as a model of the human disease, was used to analyze the effect of the… 
Review
1989
Review
1989
Diagnostic methods and epidemiologic surveillance of Taenia solium infection.
Taeniasis and cysticercosis caused by Taenia solium, the pork tapeworm, are widespread infections of Latin America, Africa, and… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Taenia solium taeniasis and cysticercosis in a Mexican village.
One hundred and twenty-four persons, nearly the entire population of a rural village in Hidalgo State, were screened for… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Cysts of the Oral Regions
History odontogenic keratocyst (primordial cyst) gingival cyst and midpalatal Raph e cyst of infants gingival cyst of adults… 
1974
1974
The golden hamster as a definitive host of Taenia solium and Taenia saginata.
Immunosuppressants have been extensively used to increase the susceptibility of various laboratory animals to several species of… 
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