Prevalence of and factors associated with human cysticercosis in 60 villages in three provinces of Burkina Faso Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde Universiteit Gent
BACKGROUND: Taenia solium, a zoonotic infection transmitted between humans and pigs, is considered an emerging infection in Sub-Saharan Africa, yet individual and community-level factors associated with the human infection with the larval stages (cysticercosis) are not well understood. This study aims to estimate the magnitude of association of individual-level and village-level factors with current human cysticercosis in 60 villages located ...