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Pregnant women with symptomatic neurocysticercosis present treatment challenges, whereas those with the adult tapeworm infection (i.e., taeniasis) can put their infants and other family members, as well as obstetrician-gynecologists and their staff, at risk for cysticercosis. A questionnaire developed by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists was sent to a representative sample of 1,000 physicians to assess their awareness of <jats:italic>T. solium<\/jats:italic> infection and the potential for it to be encountered in an obstetrics and gynecology setting. In total, 31.4% of respondents correctly answered that taeniasis is caused by eating undercooked pork containing <jats:italic>T. solium<\/jats:italic> cysts (95% confidence interval [CI] = 26.6\u201336.5). While only 14.5% (95% CI = 11.0\u201318.6) of respondents correctly answered that cysticercosis is acquired by ingesting tapeworm eggs shed in human stools, twice that number (30.3%; 95% CI = 25.5\u201335.3) correctly answered that a mother with taeniasis can cause cysticercosis in her infant. Practicing in a state in which cysticercosis was reportable at the time of the survey was not significantly associated with answering any of the 12 knowledge questions correctly. Overall, knowledge of <jats:italic>T. solium<\/jats:italic> infection among U.S. obstetricians-gynecologists is limited. This may result in missed opportunities to diagnose and treat pregnant women with taeniasis, which may put family members and obstetrics clinical staff at risk for cysticercosis.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.4269\/ajtmh.16-0350","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,11,15]],"date-time":"2016-11-15T03:30:31Z","timestamp":1479180631000},"page":"233-242","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Survey of Obstetrician-Gynecologists in the United States About Taeniasis and Cysticercosis"],"prefix":"10.4269","volume":"96","author":[{"given":"Rebecca L.","family":"Hall","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia."}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Britta","family":"Anderson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Washington, District of 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