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Diagnosis and Treatment of Neurocysticercosis: 2017 Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH).

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2018
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A. White, C. Coyle, V. Rajshekhar, Gagandeep Singh, W. Hauser, A. Mohanty, H. H. Garcia, T. Nash   +7 more
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Reversible dementia as a presenting manifestation of racemose neurocysticercosis

Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 2013
Racemose cysticercosis is a less frequent presentation of neurocysticercosis (NCC). It′s presentation and management is quite different from cerebral parenchymal NCC.
Sudhir Sharma, Manish Modi, Vivek Lal, Sudesh Prabhakar, Amit Bhardwaj, Rakesh Sehgal   +5 more
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Frequency and determinant factors for calcification in neurocysticercosis.

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2020
BACKGROUND Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is a major cause of acquired epilepsy in most of the world. Larval cysts in the human brain eventually resolve and either disappear or leave a calcified scar that is associated with seizures.
J. Bustos, Gianfranco Arroyo, R. Gilman, P. Soto-Becerra, I. Gonzales, H. Saavedra, E. Pretell, T. Nash, S. O’Neal, S. O’Neal, O. D. Brutto, Armando E. Gonzalez, H. García   +12 more
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Preliminary assessment of the computer-based Taenia solium educational program ‘The Vicious Worm’ on knowledge uptake in primary school students in rural areas in eastern Zambia [PDF]

, 2018
Objective: The zoonotic helminth Taenia solium is endemic in Zambia, causing human (taeniasis and (neuro)cysticercosis) and pig (porcine cysticercosis) diseases with high health, social and economic burdens.
Alexander, Ash, Bardosh, Birbeck, Braae, Bulaya, Carabin, Dorny, Ertel, Ertel, Gabriël, Garcia, Johansen, Mwanga, Mwape, Mwape, Mwape, Mwidunda, Ngowi, Pondja, Sarti, Sarti, Thys, Thys, Torgerson, WHO, Wohlgemut   +26 more
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Neurocysticercosis

The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 1987
Neurocysticercosis is a disease of large proportions; in most developing countries, with the exception of the Muslim world, neurocysticercosis is by far the main cause of epilepsy with a late onset and of hydrocephalus in adults.1 In the past 20 years two developments have drastically improved the gloomy picture that was associated with ...
A. K. Deorari, Veena Kalra
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Added value of 3D-DRIVE and SWI Magnetic Resonance Imaging Sequences in Intraventricular Neurocysticercosis (IVNCC): An Institutional Experience from Northeast India

Acta Medica Lituanica, 2021
Background: Prompt diagnosis and early treatment institution are important in intraventricular neurocysticercosis(IVNCC) as compared to the parenchymal or racemose form because it is associated with a poorer patient prognosis.
Deb K. Boruah, Bidyut Bikash Gogoi, Kuntal Kanti Das, Kalyan Sarma, Pranjal Phukan, Binoy Kumar Singh, Karuna Hazarika, Awadhesh Jaiswal   +7 more
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Subarachnoid neurocysticercosis: emerging concepts and treatment

Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, 2020
Purpose of review Subarachnoid neurocysticercosis (SUBNCC) is caused by a morphologically unique proliferative form of Taenia solium involving the subarachnoid spaces.
T. Nash, Elise M O’Connell
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Recurrent neurocysticercosis [PDF]

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2014
No abstract available.(Published: 31 July 2014)Citation: Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives 2014, 4: 24586 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v4 ...
Asad Jehangir, Esther Hwang, Anam Qureshi, Qasim Jehangir   +3 more
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Transcriptome analysis of Taenia solium cysticerci using Open reading Frame ESTS (ORESTES) [PDF]

, 2009
Background Human infection by the pork tapeworm Taenia solium affects more than 50 million people worldwide, particularly in underdeveloped and developing countries. Cysticercosis which arises from larval encystation can be life threatening and difficult
Almeida, Carolina R., Bayer-Santos, Ethel, Davila, Alberto M. R., Dias-Neto, Emmanuel, Ferreira, Henrique B., Grisard, Edmundo C., Maia, Antônio A., Ojopi, Elida P. B., Rodrigues, Juliana B., Rotava, Gianinna, Sincero, Thaís C. M., Sperandio, Maísa M., Stoco, Patricia H., Tyler, Kevin M., Wagner, Glauber, Zaha, Arnaldo   +15 more
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A Classic Neurocysticercosis Case with an Unusual Complication [PDF]

, 2017
Cysticercosis is triggered by infection with the larval form of the tapeworm Taenia solium. The usual sites for the development of cyscticerci are the central nervous system (neurocysticercosis – NCC), subcutaneous tissue, skeletal muscle, heart muscle ...
Rodrigues, André, Neves, Diana, Maury, Inês, Sargento, Dora, Pereira, Aida   +4 more
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