A Survey of zoonoses such as the Taeniasissand Cysticercosis were carried out among the dairy farmers in the some areas of Chung cheong nam Do.
The results are summerized as follows :
1. Past history of Taenia infection rate was 23.1% by the 1584 Questionnaires(male 1038, female 546). Among of them the worm recovery rate was 5.1 %. By the sex difference, the positive rates of Taeniasis showed that 26. 3% in male and 17. 0% in female and the recovery rates of the worm were 5.2% in male and 2.6% in female, and the increasing tendency of Taenia infection was found in the above 20 age group.
2. Both bovine and swine raw meat or raw visceral organs, liver and intestine, eating history from the rural inhabitants was found almost every case, and the eating place was in home, in the restaurant and in the tavern in order.
3. Incidence of human intestinal helminths was 78. 6% from the 435 stool specimens examined, and the rate in Dae duck area was found higher rate than that of the Seosan, and the Taenia infection rate 6.5% in Daeduck residents and 0.9% in Seosan.
4. A total of 111 of Taeniasis cases were treated with Niclosamide, the worms, scolices and, or proglottids were expelled from 81 of the treated cases. The species identification with the 87 removed worms was performed, among of them 70 was T. saginata and 17 was T. solium. the ratio of both species was 4.7 : 1.5. Examination of human cysticercosis from the out patient clinic of Chungnam National University Hospital as well as the local several clinics in Daejeon was observed in 17 cases. Subcutaneaus cysticercosis occurred all of the cases, and epileptic symptomes caused presumably by cerebral cysticercosis were also observed in 14 cases among of them, and Ocular cysticercosis occurred in the 3 cases out of 17 cases.
6. The incidences of Cysticercosis in the bovine was 5(0. 6%) out of 803 slaughtered animals and 9(0. 6%) out of 1522 slaughtered swine from the Daejeon and Dae duck public abattoir.
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