Table 1.

Numbers of muscle cysticerci in unselected pigs naturally infected with Taenia solium.

Cameroon												Peru
Animal number	Total muscle cysts	Tongue		Masticatory muscles		Heart		TMH total		Tricepsc		Animal number	Total muscle cysts	Tongue		Masticatory muscles		Heart		TMH total
		No.a	%b	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%			No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
1	3	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	2	66.7	1	1	0	0.0	0	0.0	1	100	1	100
2	6	0	0.0	0	0.0	2	33.3	2	33.3	1	16.7	2	1	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
3	10	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	4	40.0	3	1	0	0.0	1	100	0	0.0	1	100
4	14	0	0.0	1	7.1	0	0.0	1	7.1	3	21.4	4	4	0	0.0	0	0.0	1	25.0	1	25.0
5	100	6	6.0	17	17.0	0	0.0	23	23.0	23	23.0	5	5	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
6	479	11	2.3	27	5.6	11	2.3	49	10.2	96	20.0	6	7	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
7	781	8	1.0	18	2.3	8	1.0	34	4.3	77	9.9	7	27	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
8	987	17	1.7	48	4.9	23	2.3	88	8.9	106	10.7	8	36	1	2.8	0	0.0	0	0.0	1	2.8
9	1491	11	0.7	25	1.7	4	0.3	40	2.7	107	7.2	9	49	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
10	1527	14	0.9	32	2.1	31	2.0	77	5.0	146	9.6	10	75	2	2.7	2	2.7	0	0.0	4	5.3
11	2041	23	1.1	132	6.5	7	0.3	162	7.9	166	8.1	11	167	6	3.6	5	3.0	3	1.8	14	8.4
12	2116	63	3.0	40	1.9	1	0.0	104	4.9	116	5.5	12	200	5	2.5	5	2.5	1	0.5	11	5.5
13	3812	43	1.1	286	7.5	62	1.6	391	10.3	312	8.2	13	1012	10	1.0	26	2.6	18	1.8	54	5.3
14	3985	49	1.2	321	8.1	33	0.8	403	3.8	403	10.1	14	1084	14	1.3	19	1.8	0	0.0	33	3.0
15	10,543	166	1.6	803	7.6	143	1.4	1112	7.4	1007	9.6	15	1084	20	1.8	68	6.3	6	0.6	94	8.7
16	14,955	321	2.1	926	6.2	11	0.1	1258	8.4	1125	7.5	16	3436	139	4.0	57	1.7	29	0.8	225	6.5
17	14,981	206	1.4	1023	6.8	92	0.6	1321	7.2	1207	8.1	17	8234	128	1.6	188	2.3	115	1.4	431	5.2
18	18,343	207	1.1	1183	6.4	122	0.7	1512	4.7	891	4.9	18	18,566	317	1.7	523	2.8	328	1.8	1168	6.3
19	31,978	432	1.4	1644	5.1	151	0.5	2227	6.0	1829	5.7
20	37,080	743	2.0	2403	6.5	193	0.5	3339	9.0	3708	10.0

TMH, tongue, masticatory muscles and heart.

^aNumber of cysticerci.

^bPercentage of total muscle cysts.

^cTriceps muscles from one foreleg.