Jef Brandt

TL;DR: A Bayesian analysis framework offers the possibility to combine prior opinion with experimental data to more accurately estimate the real prevalence of porcine cysticercosis in the absence of a gold standard.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that expression of the two members of the mouse macrophage galactose‐type C‐type lectin gene family (mMGL1 and mMGL2) is induced in diverse populations of aaMF, including peritoneal macrophages elicited during infection with the protozoan Trypanosoma Brucei brucei or the Helminth Taenia crassiceps and alveolar macrophAGE elicited in a mouse model of allergic

TL;DR: A series of monoclonal antibodies produced against excretory and secretory products from 10- and 20-week-old Taenia saginata cysticerci were tested for their ability to detect circulating antigen in a double antibody sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).

TL;DR: It is concluded that the true prevalence of T. solium cysticercosis in pigs and humans in Central and West Africa remains underestimated because of unreliable slaughterhouse data and the lack of awareness and diagnostic facilities in the public health sector.

TL;DR: The development of improved immunodiagnostic tools has contributed to the authors' knowledge on the importance of taeniosis/cysticercosis by enabling sero-epidemiological surveys and community-based studies to be carried out and the potential use of immunodiognostic tools to identify cases of neurocysticERCosis in man is subject to debate.