Title
Experimental porcine cysticercosis using infected beetles with Taenia solium eggs
Date Issued
01 July 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
Beetles are intermediate hosts for human and animal parasites, and several beetle species have been shown to carry Taenia eggs. An experimental porcine cysticercosis infection model was developed using beetles (Ammophorus rubripes) infected with Taenia solium eggs and then using these beetles for oral pig challenge. A total of 18 three months-old Landrace pigs were divided in four groups. Pigs from groups 1, 2, and 3 (n = 6 pigs per group) were challenged with one, three, and six beetles infected with T. solium eggs, containing approximately 52, 156 or 312 eggs respectively. Pigs were necropsied 12 weeks after infection to assess the presence of T. solium metacestode. Porcine cysticercosis by T. solium was produced in 17 out of 18 pigs (94.4%) challenged with infected beetles, all infected pigs had viable cysts. Only one pig from group 1 was negative to the presence of cysts. The median number of metacestodes per pig in groups 1, 2, and 3 were 2 (range 0–71), 26 (range 5–33) and 40 cysts (range 4–111), respectively. Experimental porcine cysticercosis infection is consistently obtained using beetles as mechanical vectors for T. solium eggs.
Start page
92
End page
94
Volume
183
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Parasitología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85045182003
PubMed ID
Source
Acta Tropica
ISSN of the container
0001706X
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by FIC NIH (grant D43TW001140).
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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