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Malaysian family physician : the official journal of the Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia, 2013 A 19-year-old Chinese man presented with progressive ascending weakness of his left lower limb for 1 week. There was no loss of sensation. His other limbs were unaffected. He also complained of progressive, painless blurring of vision in his left eye for the past 1 month.
Sacristán Fraile, Víctor +1 more
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Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, 2010 Abstract Neurocysticercosis is a significant public health issue within the United States. Although cysticercosis was once thought to have been eradicated in the United States, the number of documented cases is rising and immigrants from endemic areas are at the highest risk for acquiring and developing this disease.
Kerstein, Andrew H, Massey, Andrew D
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An uncommon cause of seizures in children living in developed countries: neurocysticercosis -a case report [PDF]
Italian Journal of Pediatrics, 2011 Neurocysticercosis represents an important cause of seizures in children in endemic countries, such as Latin America, Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, while in Europe, especially in Italy, the cases of neurocysticercosis are anectodal.
Denegri Federica +5 more
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Neurohospitalist, The, 2014 Neurocysticercosis is the commonest parasitic disease of the nervous system in humans, and constitutes a major public health problem for most of the developing world. The clinical manifestations of Neurocysticercosis (NCC) largely depend on number of lesions, site, and host immune response against the parasite.
Oscar Del Brutto
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Psychiatric Disorders of Neurocysticercosis: Narrative Review
Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 2021 Asmaa M El-Kady,1 Khaled S Allemailem,2 Ahmad Almatroudi,2 Birgit Abler,3 Mohamed Elsayed3 1Department of Medical Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt; 2Department of Medical Laboratories, College of Applied Medical ...
El-Kady AM +4 more
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Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2017 Racemose neurocysticercosis refers to the ‘aberrant proliferating cestode larvae” presenting as multiple, non-capsulated cystic membranes that bud exogenously giving a multilocular cystic appearance resembling a ‘bunch of grapes’.
Arushi G. Saini +2 more
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Neuropediatrics, 2006 Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is the most common cause of acquired epilepsy in developing countries. It can present variably depending on the location and stage of cysts in the nervous system, and the host immune response. The most common presentation of parenchymal NCC is with seizures that are usually focal and brief; status epilepticus occurs in some ...
Ronald, Leonard +2 more
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Lancet. Infectious Diseases (Print), 2023 BACKGROUND Neurocysticercosis is a common cause of epilepsy in Taenia solium-endemic areas in sub-Saharan Africa but is often undiagnosed because of an absence of affordable diagnostic tools.
D. Stelzle +16 more
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Human Neurocysticercosis: An Overview
Pathogens, 2022 Human cysticercosis is caused by ingestion of T. solium eggs from taenia carriers. Neurocysticercosis (NCC), defined as the infection of the CNS and the meninges by the larval stage of Taenia solium, is the most common helminthic infection of the CNS ...
O. D. Del Brutto
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Taenia solium human cysticercosis : a systematic review of sero-epidemiological data from endemic zones around the world [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Taenia solium cysticercosis is a zoonotic neglected disease responsible for severe health disorders such as seizures and death. Understanding the epidemiology of human cysticercosis (HCC) in endemic regions will help to expose critical ...
Abatih, Emmanuel +5 more
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