Diagnostic efficiency of meat inspection service to detect Taenia solium cysticercostic pork at Wambizi pig abattoir, Kampala, Uganda: Implications for public health.

The study was conducted at Wambizi abattoir by reviewing the meat inspection records retrospectively for the last five years 2010-2005. Wambizi pig abattoir 2 receives pigs from all parts of Uganda some of which are endemic for porcine cysticercosis. The number of positive pigs diagnosed with certain conditions in each year were determined. The hygiene and incspection practices were noted. For a four month period, blood was harvested from the every fourth pig lined for slaughter. Serum was harvested from the clotted blood and cysticercosis antigen prevalence was detected in the serum by Ag-ELISA at using the HP10 Ag- ELISA system. It was found that less than ten cysticercotic pigs per year were detected. During the four month period of blood sampling no pig was diagnosed to be positive of cysticercosis on physical inspection. However, antigen sero-prevalence detected a prevalence of 42%. This implied that Wambizi pig abattoir was letting infected cysticercotic pork into the human food. It was therefore recommended that stringent supervision of the meat inspection to minimize the risk of tramsmission of cysticercosis to pork consumers. porcine Also sensitive method of diagnosis using the lamina flow ELISA be introduced for detecting cysticercosis infected pigs