Taenia solium and Taenia saginata are zoonotic tapeworm species that cause taeniosis in humans (definitive host) and cysticercosis in pigs and ...SkiptomaincontentAdvertisementSearchallBMCarticlesSearchDownloadPDFReviewOpenAccessPublished:21July2017Epidemiologyoftaeniosis/cysticercosisinEurope,asystematicreview:WesternEuropeMinervaLaranjo-González1,BrechtDevleesschauwer2,ChiaraTrevisan3,AlbertoAllepuz1,4,SmaragdaSotiraki5,AnnetteAbraham6,7,MarianaBoaventuraAfonso8,JoachimBlocher9,LuísCardoso10,JoséManuelCorreiadaCosta11,12,PierreDorny13,14,SarahGabriël15,JacintoGomes16,MaríaÁngelesGómez-Morales17,PikkaJokelainen18,19,20,MiriamKaminski21,BraneKrt22,PascalMagnussen23,24,LucyJ.Robertson25,VeronikaSchmidt6,7,ErichSchmutzhard26,G.SuzanneA.Smit13,14,27,BarbaraŠoba28,ChristenRuneStensvold19,JožeStarič29,KarinTroell30,AleksandraVerglesRataj22,MadalenaVieira-Pinto10,31,ManuelaVilhena32,NicolaAnnWardrop33,AndreaS.Winkler6,7&VeroniqueDermauw14 Parasites&Vectorsvolume 10,Article number: 349(2017)Citethisarticle8640Accesses36Citations8AltmetricMetricsdetailsAbstractBackgroundTaeniasoliumandTaeniasaginataarezoonoticparasitesofpublichealthimportance.DataontheiroccurrenceinhumansandanimalsinwesternEuropeareincompleteandfragmented.Inthisstudy,weaimedtoupdatethecurrentknowledgeontheepidemiologyoftheseparasitesinthisregion.MethodsWeconductedasystematicreviewofscientificandgreyliteraturepublishedfrom1990to2015ontheepidemiologyofT.saginataandT.soliuminhumansandanimals.Additionally,dataaboutdiseaseoccurrencewereactivelysoughtbycontactinglocalexpertsinthedifferentcountries.ResultsTaeniosiscaseswerefoundintwelveoutofeighteencountriesinwesternEurope.NocaseswereidentifiedinIceland,Ireland,Luxembourg,Norway,SwedenandSwitzerland.ForDenmark,Netherlands,Portugal,Slovenia,SpainandtheUK,annualtaeniosiscaseswerereportedandthenumberofdetectedcasesperyearrangedbetween1and114.Detectedprevalencesrangedfrom0.05to0.27%,whereasestimatedprevalencesrangedfrom0.02to0.67%.MosttaeniosiscaseswerereportedasTaeni