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African village pigs.
This photograph shows typical African village pigs. Such pigs are mainly free roaming or semi-confined and their close contact with humans is one of the major risk factors for the transmission of Taenia solium taeniasis and cysticercosis. Human cysticercosis can cause serious neurological disorders such as acquired epilepsy. Although T. solium cysticercosis is being eradicated in most industrialized countries, with their intensified pig husbandry systems, it remains an important but neglected zoonotic disease in low-income countries (see Praet et al., doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000406).
Image Credit: Nicolas Praet, Institute of Tropical Medicine of Antwerp
Citation: (2009) PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Issue Image | Vol. 3(3) March 2009. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 3(3): ev03.i03. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pntd.v03.i03
Published: March 31, 2009
Copyright: © 2009 Nicolas Praet. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
This photograph shows typical African village pigs. Such pigs are mainly free roaming or semi-confined and their close contact with humans is one of the major risk factors for the transmission of Taenia solium taeniasis and cysticercosis. Human cysticercosis can cause serious neurological disorders such as acquired epilepsy. Although T. solium cysticercosis is being eradicated in most industrialized countries, with their intensified pig husbandry systems, it remains an important but neglected zoonotic disease in low-income countries (see Praet et al., doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000406).
Image Credit: Nicolas Praet, Institute of Tropical Medicine of Antwerp