{"title":"Seroepidemiologic Survey for Human Sparganosis in Mto wa Mbu Division, Monduli District, Tanzania","authors":"N. Kavana, CJ Kavana, AA Kassuku","doi":"10.4314/HURIA.V20I1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Sparganum is a plerocercoid of pseudophyllidean tapeworm of Spirometra species. Human sparganosis has been reported in Northern Tanzania. A seroepidemiologic survey was undertaken to detect anti-sparganum specific IgG antibodies in serum of normal inhabitants of Mto wa Mbu, Monduli District, Tanzania. Sera were tested by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the antisparganum antibodies. Positive rate for antisparganum antibody in 185 subjects was 116 (62.7%). Out of these 17 (9.2) were adult males, 80 (43.2%) were adult females and 19 (10.3%) were children (<18 years). Data for the questionnaire for all 116 ELISA positive inhabitants revealed that had history of eating game meat and drinking water from running springs. The data revealed that ELISA would be useful to find infected cases among normal inhabitants at sparganosis endemic areas. Key words: Sparganosis, seroepidemiology, ELISA","PeriodicalId":327958,"journal":{"name":"Huria: Journal of the Open University of Tanzania","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2015-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Huria: Journal of the Open University of Tanzania","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4314/HURIA.V20I1","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Sparganum is a plerocercoid of pseudophyllidean tapeworm of Spirometra species. Human sparganosis has been reported in Northern Tanzania. A seroepidemiologic survey was undertaken to detect anti-sparganum specific IgG antibodies in serum of normal inhabitants of Mto wa Mbu, Monduli District, Tanzania. Sera were tested by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the antisparganum antibodies. Positive rate for antisparganum antibody in 185 subjects was 116 (62.7%). Out of these 17 (9.2) were adult males, 80 (43.2%) were adult females and 19 (10.3%) were children (<18 years). Data for the questionnaire for all 116 ELISA positive inhabitants revealed that had history of eating game meat and drinking water from running springs. The data revealed that ELISA would be useful to find infected cases among normal inhabitants at sparganosis endemic areas. Key words: Sparganosis, seroepidemiology, ELISA
Sparganum是一种螺旋体绦虫的假茶树绦虫。坦桑尼亚北部报告了人类斯巴达病。对坦桑尼亚蒙杜利区Mto wa Mbu的正常居民进行了血清流行病学调查，以检测血清中抗sparganum特异性IgG抗体。采用酶联免疫吸附试验(ELISA)检测血清中抗sparganum抗体。185例患者抗斯巴甘抗体阳性率116例(62.7%)。其中成年男性17例(9.2)，成年女性80例(43.2%)，儿童(<18岁)19例(10.3%)。所有116名ELISA阳性居民的问卷数据显示，他们有吃野味和饮用流动泉水的历史。结果表明，酶联免疫吸附试验可在斯巴达病流行地区的正常居民中发现感染病例。关键词:斯巴达菌病;血清流行病学;ELISA
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