Taenia solium Cysticercosis in the Democratic Republic of Congo: How Does Pork Trade Affect the Transmission of the Parasite?

• Nicolas Praet ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicolas Praet, Kirezi Kanobana

  * E-mail: npraet@itg.be

  Affiliations Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Research Unit of Epidemiology and Risk Analysis Applied to Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium

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• Kirezi Kanobana ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicolas Praet, Kirezi Kanobana

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Constantin Kabwe,

  Affiliation Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Vivi Maketa,

  Affiliation Tropical Medicine Department, Kinshasa University, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Philippe Lukanu,

  Affiliation Kimpese Health Zone, Kimpese, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Pascal Lutumba,

  Affiliation Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Katja Polman,

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Peter Matondo,

  Affiliation Laboratoire Vétérinaire de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Niko Speybroeck,

  Affiliations Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Institute of Health and Society, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

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• Pierre Dorny,

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Julienne Sumbu

  Affiliation Laboratoire Vétérinaire de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

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