ArticlePLoS neglected tropical diseases2018
Taenia solium, Taenia saginata, Taenia asiatica, their hybrids and other helminthic infections occurring in a neglected tropical diseases' highly endemic area in Lao PDR.
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- Epidemiology of Taenia saginata taeniosis/cysticercosis: a systematic review of the distribution in East, Southeast and South Asia.Parasites & vectors · 2020Pooled it
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- Soil-transmitted helminth infections and anemia in children attending government run schools on Samosir Island, Indonesia.Parasite epidemiology and control · 2024Article
- Genetic Variation ofHelminthologia · 2022Article
- Case Report: Molecular Diagnosis Revealing an Intestinal Infection of a Hybridized Tapeworm (Frontiers in gastroenterology (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Diagnosis of Taenia solium infections based on "mail order" RNA-sequencing of single tapeworm egg isolates from stool samples.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
- Occurrence of a Hybrid Between Taenia saginata and Taenia asiatica Tapeworms in Cambodia.The Korean journal of parasitology · 2021Article
- Prevalence of Genetically ComplexFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2021Review
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- Nuclear and kinetoplast DNA analyses reveal genetically complex Leishmania strains with hybrid and mito-nuclear discordance in Peru.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2020Article
- Molecular Diagnosis of Taenia saginata Tapeworms from Two Residents of Northern Cambodia.The Korean journal of parasitology · 2020Article
- Four Taeniasis saginata Cases Diagnosed at a University Hospital in Korea.The Korean journal of parasitology · 2019Article
- Accurate diagnosis of lesions suspected of being caused by Taenia solium in body organs of pigs with naturally acquired porcine cysticercosis.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2019Article
- Occurrence of Bovine Cysticercosis in Two Regions of the State of Tocantins-Brazil and the Importance of Pathogen Identification.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- PCR-RFLP analyses of Leishmania species causing cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis revealed distribution of genetically complex strains with hybrid and mito-nuclear discordance in Ecuador.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2019Article
- A co-infection case report of Taenia saginata in a patient with subclinical clonorchiasis confirmed by the combination of diagnostic tools.BMC infectious diseases · 2019Article
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Abstract
Most part of Southeast Asia is considered endemic for human-infecting Taenia tapeworms; Taenia solium, T. saginata, and T. asiatica. However, until now there was no report of the occurrence of human cases of T. asiatica in Lao PDR. This study, conducted in Savannakhet Province, Lao PDR, microscopically examined a total of 470 fecal samples by Kato Katz method and found 86% of people harboring at least one helminth. Hookworms were detected in 56% of the samples besides Opisthorchis like eggs (42%), Trichuris trichiura (27%), Ascaris spp. (14%), and Taenia spp. (4%) eggs. Serology for cysticercosis showed 6.8% positives with results varying from 3% to 14.3% in Ethnic School students and Kalouk Kao village respectively. Species-specific PCR targeting mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of 28 tapeworms, recovered from 16 patients, revealed T. solium (n = 2), T. saginata (n = 21), and T. asiatica (n = 5). Two patients were confirmed to be coinfected with T. saginata and T. asiatica, indicating the endemicity of the 3 human Taenia in Lao PDR. However, nucleotide sequencing of a nuclear DNA gene, DNA polymerase delta (pold) revealed that all the tapeworms identified as T. asiatica using mtDNA had T. saginata type allele at pold locus, demonstrating that they are not "pure T. asiatica" but the hybrid descendants between the two species, confirming the wide distribution of hybrids of T. saginata/ T. asiatica in Southeast Asia. The high prevalence of several helminthic NTDs in east Savannakhet area even with conventional control measures indicates the importance to establish wide and multifaceted health programs to sustainably improve the quality of life of the populations living in these communities.
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