title: Human neurocysticercosis case and an endemic focus of Taenia solium in Lao PDR.
abstract: A male patient with neurocysticercosis was identified in Montai Village, Xay District, Oudomxay Province, Lao PDR in February 2004. He had a history of diagnosis for neurocysticercosis by a CT scan in Thailand after an onset of epileptic seizure in 1993. A pig in the same district was found to contain Taenia solium metacestodes (=cysticerci); the slaughtered pig body contained more than 2,000 cysticerci. In addition to morphological identification, molecular identification was also performed on the cysticerci by DNA sequencing analysis of the mitochondrial cox1 gene; they were confirmed as T. solium metacestodes. The patient is regarded as an indigenous case of neurocysticercosis infected in an endemic focus of T. solium taeniasis/cysticercosis in Oudomxay Province, Lao PDR.
authors: Department of Parasitology and Medical Research Institute, Chungbuk National University School of Medicine, Cheongju 361-763, Korea.
authors: Hyeong-Kyu
authors: HK
authors: Jeon
authors: Tai-Soon
authors: TS
authors: Yong
authors: Woon-Mok
authors: WM
authors: Sohn
authors: Jong-Yil
authors: JY
authors: Chai
authors: Duk-Young
authors: DY
authors: Min
authors: Han-Jong
authors: HJ
authors: Rim
authors: Bounnaloth
authors: B
authors: Insisiengmay
authors: Keeseon S
authors: KS
authors: Eom
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003552:Cysticercus; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D007812:Laos / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000235:genetics; D020019:Neurocysticercosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000469:parasitology; D011859:Radiography; D012307:Risk Factors; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013552:Swine; D013553:Swine Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000469:parasitology; D041201:Taenia solium / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*
chemical_list: D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV
keywords: Lao PDR; Taenia solium; human cysticercosis; neurocysticercosis; pig