Table 1.
Reported occurrence of taeniosis in southern and eastern Africa: microscopy studies
| Country | Period | People tested | People positive | Prevalence (%) (95% CI) |
Species identification | Group studied | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angola | 9/2012-12/2013 | 344 | 2 | 0.58 (0.07–2.1) | N | Children below 5 with diarrhea | [50] |
| Angola | 1/2015-5/2015 | 230 | 2 | 0.87 (0.10–3.1) | N | School children in 16 schools | [51] |
| Ethiopia | 11/1995-4/1996; 6-9/1996 | 1750 | 79 | 4.5 (3.6–5.6) | Ya | Sugar-estate residents | [52] |
| Ethiopia | 3-4/1999; 2/2002 | 3167 | na | < 4 (na) | N | Schoolchildren, peasants and teachers | [53] |
| Ethiopia | 1/2002-2/2002 | 104 | 1 | 0.96 (0.02–5.2) | Ya | HIV/AIDS and HIV-seronegative individuals in a teaching hospital | [54] |
| Ethiopia | 2007–2012 | 32191 | 322 | 1.0 (0.9–1.1) | N | Rural hospital visiters | [55] |
| Ethiopia | 5/2007-6/2007 | 419 | na | 1.4 (na) | N | na | [56] |
| Ethiopia | 12/2007-2/2008 | 7171 | 23 | 0.32 (0.20–0.48) | N | Visitors of health centers | [57] |
| Ethiopia | 8/2008-12/2008 | 343 | 14 | 4.1 (2.2–6.8) | N | HIV patients recruited at hospital | [58] |
| Ethiopia | 11/2008 | 121 | 5 | 4.1 (1.4–9.4) | N | Prison inmates | [59] |
| Ethiopia | 11/2008 | 115 | 1 | 0.87 (0.02–4.7) | N | Tobacco farm workers | [59] |
| Ethiopia | 4/2009 | 384 | 5 | 1.3 (0.4–3.0) | N | Food handlers | [60] |
| Ethiopia | 9/2010-7/2011 | 858 | 18 | 2.1 (1.2–3.3) | N | Highland and lowland dwellers | [61] |
| Ethiopia | 1/2011-6/2011 | 200 | 1 | 0.5 (0.01–2.8) | N | Food handlers | [62] |
| Ethiopia | 3/2012-11/2012 | 260 | 1 | 0.38 (0.01–2.12) | N | Children recruited in Health Center | [63] |
| Ethiopia | 1/2013-5/2013 | 172 | 5 | 2.9 (1.0–6.7) | N | Asymptomatic food handlers | [64] |
| Ethiopia | 8/2013-11/2013 | 180 | 2 | 1.1 (0.13–4.0) | N | HAART initiated and naive paediatric HIV patients | [65] |
| Ethiopia | 1/2015-2/2015 | 503 | 13 | 2.6 (1.4–4.4) | N | School children from 5 schools | [66] |
| Ethiopia | 1/2016-8/2016 | 213 | 5 | 2.3 (0.8–5.4) | N | Active pulmonary TB patients | [67] |
| Ethiopia | na | 1537 | na | 8.1 (na) | Ya | Participants from 19 communities, includes children and adults | [23] |
| Ethiopia | na | 491 | 12 | 2.4 (1.3–4.2) | N | Villagers | [68] |
| Kenya | 2000–2009 | 31 | 1 | 3.2 (0.08–16.7) | N | Sleeping sickness patients | [69] |
| Kenya | 7/2010-7/2012 | 2057 | na | 0.20 (na) | N | na | [22] |
| Kenya | 8/2010-7/2012 | 2113 | na | 0.30 (0–0.5) | N | Mixed-farming community | [26] |
| Kenya | na | 285 | na | 5.3 (na) | N | HIV-positive patients | [70] |
| Kenya | na | 151 | 0 | 0 (0–2.4) | N | Geophagous pregnant women | [24] |
| Madagascar | 11/1996-1/1997 | 401 | 3 | 0.75 (0.15–2.2) | N | Patients referred for parasitological examination | [71] |
| South Africa | 2009 | na | 2 | na | N | Laboratory results | [72] |
| South Africa | 2009 | na | 4 | na | Y | Laboratory results | [72] |
| South Africa | 4/2009-9/2009 | 162 | 3 | 1.9 (0.4–5.3) | N | School children | [73] |
| South Africa | 2010 | na | 11 | na | Y | Laboratory results | [72] |
| South Africa | 2010 | na | 1 | na | N | Laboratory results | [72] |
| South Africa | na | 183 | 3 | 1.6 (0.3–4.7) | N | Rural black preschool children | [74] |
| Tanzania | 2008–2009 | 1057 | 3 | 0.30 (0.06–0.8) | Yb | Villagers, after treatment with niclosamide/praziquantel and purgation | [75] |
| Uganda | na | 5313 | 36 | 0.70 (0.5–0.9) | N | Primary school children | [76] |
| Zambia | 6/2007-8/2007 | 403 | na | 0.90 (na) | N | School children | [77] |
aReported as T. saginata, yet unclear from methodology
bConfirmed by PCR
Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; na, not available; HAART, highly active antiretroviral therapy