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Table 5 Total count and percentage of viable and non-viable Taenia solium cysts in different tissue/carcass site of pigs

From: Control trial of porcine cysticercosis in Uganda using a combination of the TSOL18 vaccination and oxfendazole

Organ/muscle

Baseline necropsy (n = 18)

End of study necropsy (n = 5)

No. V

Percent (%)

No. NV

Percent (%)

No. V

Percent

No. NV

Percent

Brain

69

0.10

12

0.02

3

0.20%

0

0.00%

Tongue

1109

1.56

725

1.25

20

1.33%

2

8.70%

Head/masseter

6300

8.85

2545

4.40

67

4.46%

0

0.00%

Forelimb

18 691

26.26

11 708

20.22

426

28.36%

20

89.96%

Flank

8743

12.29

15 020

25.94

-

-

-

-

Hindlimb

18 823

26.45

16 085

27.78

-

-

-

-

Heart

1795

2.52

831

1.44

14

0.93%

0

0.00%

Diaphragm

1586

2.23

468

0.81

52

3.46%

0

0.00%

Liver

0

0.00

0

0.00

0

0.00%

0

0.00%

Thorax

14 039

19.73

10 513

18.16

-

-

-

-

R.rest of carcassa

    

918

61.12%

0

0.00%

L.rest of carcass

    

2

0.13%

1

4.35%

Grand total

71 155

100.0

57 907

100.0

1502

100.0%

23

100.0%

  1. It includes the 18 pigs positive at baseline, and the five pigs positive at end of study (including two pigs where a single viable cyst was found in the left side of the carcase musculature)
  2. R.rest of carcass: Right side remainder of carcass musculature; L.rest of carcass: Left side remainder of carcass musculature; V: Viable; NV: Non-viable
  3. aFlank, hind limb and thorax were all lumped into rest of carcass for the end of study necropsies