Taenia solium survey on pork, meat of cows and buffalo in some sites of Ha Noi
- Author:
Nguyen Van De
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Teania solium disease
- MeSH:
Taenia solium;
Swine;
Meat;
epidemiology
- From:Journal of Malaria and parasite diseases Control
2003;0(6):93-99
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
The survey was carried out between June - December 2002 and May - October 2003 in the different sites of Ha Noi. 138.298 pigs and 9.755 cattle were inspected. One of the 138.298 inspected pigs was found to be infected with Teania solium larva (0.000723%). No one of 9.755 inspected cattle was found to be infected. The survey was also carried out in the pork shops in five districts of Ha Noi city: Dang Tran Con (Dong Da district), North Thanh Xuan (Thanh Xuan district), Thanh Cong (Ba Dinh district), Van Dien (Thanh Tri district) and Phung Khoang (Tu Liem district). In 5.570 times of inspection in the pork shops, only one sample (0.018%) was found to be infected with Teania solium larva. This infected case was found from 1.305 samples (0.08%) collected in the Thanh Cong market. None of 4.265 inspected samples was positive with Teania solium. Also none of the samples collected from meat of cows and buffalo sold in 1.557 shops was found positive
