[Cysticercus bovis in bovines under federal inspection (SIF) at slaughterhouse in mountain region of the State of Rio de Janeiro from 2003 and 2004].

The purpose of this work was to determine the importance of bovine cysticercosis in mountain region of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with data from SIF 193, located at Itaperuna. In this study, data from 23,501 animals were used, while 15,078 were analyzed in the first year and 8,423 in the second year, with 304 (2.02%) animals parasited in 2003 and 225 (2.67%) in 2004. This work studied the occurrence of bovine cysticercosis in the region, and tried to show the importance of sanitary inspection as a means of preventing human taeniasis.