Prevalence of bovine cysticercosis in slaughtered cattle in Iran.
Bovine cysticercosis is an important food safety issue and can cause economic loss. A cross sectional study on Taenia saginata cysticercosis was carried out in slaughtered cattle in Iran in order to determine the infection rate during a three-years period, from 2005 to 2007. A total of 4,534,105 cattle were examined by routine meat inspection. The results showed that 11,410 cattle (0.25 %) were infected with Cysticercus bovis; among those 1,041 carcasses (0.02%) were condemned. In such carcasses the metacestodes caused extensive damage in the vicinity of cysts in infected cattle. The rejected carcasses had an average of 410 thousands USD loss annually.
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Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, P.O. Box: 14155-6446, Tehran, Iran. ghjahed@tums.ac.ir
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D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D002418:Cattle Diseases / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000469:parasitology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003551:Cysticercosis / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000469:parasitology / Q000662:veterinary*; D003552:Cysticercus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D016266:Food Parasitology; D007492:Iran / Q000453:epidemiology; D008460:Meat / Q000469:parasitology*; D015995:Prevalence