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. 2017 Sep 18;10:424. doi: 10.1186/s13071-017-2362-7

Table 1.

Countries in Central America and the Caribbean basin with Taenia solium taeniosis/cysticercosis occurrence recorded from 1986 to April 2017. Taenia solium taeniosis was not confirmed unless otherwise stated and presence of T. solium there uncertain

Country Porcine cysticercosis Taeniosis Human cysticercosis No. of references
Belize [31] 1
Colombia [3235] [33, 34, 3638] 7
Costa Rica [39] 1
Cuba [40] [41] 2
Guadeloupe [42] 1
Guatemala [16, 43] [16, 4345]a [43, 46] 5
Haiti [47] [48] 2
Honduras [23, 49, 50] [17, 49, 5154]a [17, 5256] 11
Mexicob [50, 5759] [59] [59] 4
Nicaragua [60] [61, 62] 3
Panama [6365] 3
Saint Lucia [29]a, c 1
Venezuela [6670] [7173] [7277] 12

aConfirmed T. solium taeniosis cases

bOnly studies from the Yucatán Peninsula are included here

cMethod used for confirmation not stated