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Epidemiology and genetic diversity of Taenia asiatica: a systematic review.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Epidemiology of Taenia saginata taeniosis/cysticercosis: a systematic review of the distribution in the Middle East and North Africa.Parasites & vectors · 2019Pooled it
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- The Brief Case: Tastes of travel-intestinal importation.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2026Review
- Serological diagnosis of cysticercosis in humans and pigs: status, limitations, and prospects.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Review
- Prevalence of taeniosis in pig farming community in Andhra Pradesh, India.Journal of parasitic diseases : official organ of the Indian Society for Parasitology · 2023Article
- A rare case of human taeniasis caused byParasitology · 2023Article
- Diagnostic tools for the detection of taeniid eggs in different environmental matrices: A systematic review.Food and waterborne parasitology · 2022Article
- Case Report: Molecular Diagnosis Revealing an Intestinal Infection of a Hybridized Tapeworm (Frontiers in gastroenterology (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- A retrospective study ofFood and waterborne parasitology · 2021Article
- Meat-borne parasites in the Arab world: a review in a One Health perspective.Parasitology research · 2021Review
- Low Prevalence of Cysticercosis andTropical medicine and infectious disease · 2021Article
- Taenia saginata Infection Misdiagnosed as Acute Cholecystitis in a Tibetan Patient, in China.The Korean journal of parasitology · 2021Article
- Transcriptome Analysis and Autophagy Investigation of LoVo Cells Stimulated with Exosomes Derived fromMicroorganisms · 2021Article
- An annotated checklist of the eukaryotic parasites of humans, exclusive of fungi and algae.ZooKeys · 2021Article
- Diversity of Taenia and Hydatigera (Cestoda: Taeniidae) in domestic dogs in Kenya.Parasitology research · 2020Article
- Parasitic diseases as a cause of acute abdominal pain: imaging findings.Insights into imaging · 2020Review
- Taenia solium Cysticercosis and Its Impact in Neurological Disease.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2020Review
- Ten Cases of Taenia saginata Infection Confirmed by Analysis of the Internal Transcribed Spacer 1 rDNA Region in the Republic of Korea.The Korean journal of parasitology · 2019Article
- A quantitative risk assessment for human Taenia solium exposure from home slaughtered pigs in European countries.Parasites & vectors · 2019Article
- Population Genetics and Molecular Epidemiology of Eukaryotes.Microbiology spectrum · 2018Review
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Abstract
Taenia asiatica has made a remarkable journey through the scientific literature of the past 50 years, starting with the paradoxical observation of high prevalences of T. saginata-like tapeworms in non-beef consuming populations, to the full description of its mitochondrial genome. Experimental studies conducted in the 1980s and 1990s have made it clear that the life cycle of T. asiatica is comparable to that of T. saginata, except for pigs being the preferential intermediate host and liver the preferential location of the cysts. Whether or not T. asiatica can cause human cysticercosis, as is the case for Taenia solium, remains unclear. Given the specific conditions needed to complete its life cycle, in particular the consumption of raw or poorly cooked pig liver, the transmission of T. asiatica shows an important ethno-geographical association. So far, T. asiatica has been identified in Taiwan, South Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, south-central China, Vietnam, Japan and Nepal. Especially this last observation indicates that its distribution is not restricted to South-East-Asia, as was thought so far. Indeed, the molecular tools developed over the last 20 years have made it increasingly possible to differentiate T. asiatica from other taeniids. Such tools also indicated that T. asiatica is related more closely to T. saginata than to T. solium, feeding the debate on its taxonomic status as a separate species versus a subspecies of T. saginata. Furthermore, the genetic diversity within T. asiatica appears to be very minimal, indicating that this parasite may be on the verge of extinction. However, recent studies have identified potential hybrids between T. asiatica and T. saginata, reopening the debate on the genetic diversity of T. asiatica and its status as a separate species.
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