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Document type:
Article; Evaluation Study; Journal Article
Author(s):
Sadlowski, Henrik; Schmidt, Veronika; Hiss, Jonathan; Kuehn, Johannes A; Schneider, Christian G; Zulu, Gideon; Hachangu, Alex; Sikasunge, Chummy S; Mwape, Kabemba E; Winkler, Andrea S; Schuelke, Markus
Title:
Diagnosis of Taenia solium infections based on "mail order" RNA-sequencing of single tapeworm egg isolates from stool samples.
Abstract:
Combined community health programs aiming at health education, preventive anti-parasitic chemotherapy, and vaccination of pigs have proven their potential to regionally reduce and even eliminate Taenia solium infections that are associated with a high risk of neurological disease through ingestion of T. solium eggs. Yet it remains challenging to target T. solium endemic regions precisely or to make exact diagnoses in individual patients. One major reason is that the widely available stool micros...     »
Journal title abbreviation:
PLoS Negl Trop Dis
Year:
2021
Journal volume:
15
Journal issue:
12
Fulltext / DOI:
doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0009787
Pubmed ID:
http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34890398
Print-ISSN:
1935-2727
TUM Institution:
Neurologische Klinik und Poliklinik
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