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Helminths as architects of trained tolerance: implications for human health

Clinical &Translational Immunology, Volume 15, Issue 3, 2026.
Abstract Helminths infect nearly 2 billion people worldwide and are a major cause of chronic morbidity in low‐resource regions. Unlike bacterial and viral pathogens that elicit protective memory, helminths actively remodel host immunity to enable their years‐long persistence and reinfection.
Quinn Moroz, Jorge Lucas Nascimento Souza, Neima Briggs   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Managing neurocysticercosis: challenges and solutions

, 2015
Yannick Fogoum Fogang, Abdoul Aziz Savadogo, Massaman Camara, Dènahin Hinnoutondji Toffa, Anna Basse, Adjaratou Djeynabou Sow, Mouhamadou Mansour Ndiaye Neurology Department, Fann Teaching Hospital, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal ...
Toffa DH, Camara M, Savadogo AA, Basse A, Sow AD, Ndiaye MM, Fogang YF   +6 more
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Neurocysticercosis among patients with first time seizure in Northern Namibia

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2016
INTRODUCTION: neurocysticercosis is a common cause of seizures in low resource countries. There is a paucity of data regarding the extent of this infection in Namibia.
Innocent Lule Segamwenge, Ngalyuka Paul Kioko, Celia Mukulu, Ogunsina Jacob, Wanzira Humphrey, Josephine Augustinus   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Volumetric MRI study of the brain in patients with neurocysticercosis and mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

Epileptic Disorders, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 109-118, February 2026.
Abstract Objective Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is a common parasitic infection of the central nervous system and a known cause of focal epilepsy. Its potential role in triggering or contributing to mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis (MTLE‐HS) is suggested, but the impact on brain volumetry remains unclear.
Jaisa Quedi Araújo, Bruna da Silveira Arruda, Sandra Polita, Maurício Anés, Thiago Junqueira Ribeiro de Rezende, Matheus de Lima Ruffini, Adolfo Moraes de Souza, Jordana Soares Chaves, Fabiano Reis, Marino Muxfeldt Bianchin, Juliana Ávila Duarte   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neurocysticercosis-Induced Hemiballismus in a Child

, 2011
Neurocysticercosis lesions can occur in the basal ganglia, but most of these are clinically silent. Neurocysticercosis manifesting as movement disorders is extremely uncommon.
Jane J. E. David, Prachi S. Karnik, Radha G. Ghildiyal, Milind S. Tullu   +3 more
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THE IMPACT OF SEIZURES ON COGNITIVE ABILITIES OF PATIENTS DIAGNOSED WITH NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan
Neurocysticercosis is one of the most encountered infectious diseases caused by parasites. This condition is caused by an infection of the larvae (cysticercus) of the tapeworm Taenia Solium in the central nervous system.
Noveline Sagita, Putri Thalia Handoko, Ardo Sanjaya, Julia Windi Gunadi   +3 more
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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, Allemailem KS, Almatroudi A, Abler B, Elsayed M   +4 more
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Predictors of etiology and drug resistance in children with new‐onset focal seizures

Epilepsia Open, Volume 11, Issue 1, Page 123-135, February 2026.
Abstract Objective To examine the clinical features of new‐onset focal seizures in children and investigate clinical associations and predictors of underlying etiology and drug resistance. Methods Data were gathered from The Children's Hospital at Westmead admissions for patients aged 1 month to 18 years who presented with new‐onset focal seizures ...
Byoung Chan Lee, Russell C. Dale, Elizabeth H. Barnes, Shekeeb S. Mohammad, Sachin Gupta, Chong Wong, Deepak Gill, Kavitha Kothur   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hypopituitarism Caused by Neurocysticercosis

, 2011
Although neurocysticercosis is pleomorphic in its presentation, neurocysticercosis of the pituitary gland and hypothalamus is so uncommon that less than 10 cases have been reported in the literature.
Kelesidis, Theodoros, Tsiodras, Sotirios
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Cellular and molecular basis associated with metacestode proliferation in subarachnoid neurocysticercosis

Frontiers in Immunology, 2022
Miguel A. Orrego, Manuela R. Verastegui, Hector H. Garcia, Hector H. Garcia, Hector H. Garcia   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source