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SUBMITTER: Figueiredo BNS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6631241 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Figueiredo Benta Natânia Silva BNS LIBóRIO Ricardo Alencar RA Sato Megumi M da Silva Camila Figueira CF Pereira-Junior Ronaldo Alves RA Chigusa Yuichi Y Kawai Satoru S Sato Marcello Otake MO
Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) 20190520 2
Bovine cysticercosis, caused by <i>Taenia saginata</i> metacestodes, is the cause of significant economic losses to the meat production chain by condemnation and downgrading of infected carcasses. It is also a public health issue causing human taeniasis. This study evaluated the occurrence of bovine cysticercosis at the meat inspection procedures in slaughterhouses of south and north regions of the Tocantins State in Brazil. Specimens identified as cysts of <i>T. saginata</i> were collected and ...[more]