1993, Number 2
Detection of Cysticercus cellulosae antibodies in human sera by the immunoenzimatic assay ELISA
Language: English/Spanish
References: 10
Page: 117-120
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ABSTRACT
A total of 312 human serum samples from workers, students and academic staff from the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Tamaulipas, were tested. The modified ELISA test was used, and 7 positive sera (2.24%) from the population sampled were detected. The positive samples belonged to 19 to 25 years of age individuals. Two hundred and sixty one sera samples were from males and 51 were from females, showing a seropositivity of 2.3 and 2.0%, respectively. Two of the positive individuals regularly ate raw vegetables and all seven ate pork-meat (two of them undercooked). One of them had been living with a person with clinical cysticercosis. Another showed clinical nervous signs (lipotimia, fainting spells, sporadic convulsions and incoordination of the upper extremities), but subsequent radiologic studies did not show brain calcifications in this individual.REFERENCES
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