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Taenia solium cysticercosis [PDF]

The Lancet, 2003
The larval stage of the pork tapeworm (Taenia solium) infects the human nervous system, causing neurocysticercosis. This disease is one of the main causes of epileptic seizures in many less developed countries and is also increasingly seen in more developed countries because of immigration from endemic areas.
Héctor H, García, Armando E, Gonzalez, Carlton A W, Evans, Robert H, Gilman   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Prevalence and factors associated with human Taenia solium taeniosis and cysticercosis in twelve remote villages of Ranomafana rainforest, Madagascar

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2022
Background Infections with the tapeworm Taenia solium (taeniosis and cysticercosis) are Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) highly endemic in Madagascar.
Anjanirina Rahantamalala, R. Rakotoarison, E. Rakotomalala, M. Rakotondrazaka, Jaydon Kiernan, Paul M Castle, L. Hakami, K. Choi, A. Rafalimanantsoa, A. Harimanana, Patricia Wright, S. Grandjean Lapierre, Matthieu Schoenhals, Peter M. Small, L. Marcos, I. Vigan-Womas   +15 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Spatial Autocorrelation Method for Taenia solium Risk Mapping: The Case of Lao PDR

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023
Background: The World Health Organization has identified Taenia solium mapping tools as an important development for intensifying control in hyperendemic areas. Taenia solium has also been identified as a priority by the Lao PDR government.
Andrew Larkins, Mieghan Bruce, Amanda Ash   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evidence for Transmission of Taenia solium Taeniasis/Cysticercosis in a Rural Area of Northern Rwanda

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021
Cysticercosis is a parasitic infection caused by the metacestode larval stage (cysticercus) of Taenia solium. In humans, cysticercosis may infect the central nervous system and cause neurocysticercosis, which is responsible for over 50,000 deaths per ...
Lucrecia Acosta Soto, L. A. Parker, M. J. Irisarri-Gutiérrez, J. Bustos, Yesenia Castillo, E. Perez, C. Muñoz-Antolí, J. Esteban, H. García, F. Bornay-Llinares   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Transcriptomic analysis of subarachnoid cysts of Taenia solium reveals mechanisms for uncontrolled proliferation and adaptations to the microenvironment. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Orrego MA, Szczesniak MW, Vasquez CM, Verastegui MR, Bustos JA, Garcia HH, Nash TE, Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru.   +7 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Geographically Targeted Interventions versus Mass Drug Administration to Control Taenia solium Cysticercosis, Peru

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2021
Optimal control strategies for Taenia solium taeniasis and cysticercosis have not been determined. We conducted a 2-year cluster randomized trial in Peru by assigning 23 villages to 1 of 3 geographically targeted intervention approaches.
S. O’Neal, Ian W. Pray, Percy Vilchez, R. Gamboa, Claudio Muro, Luz M Moyano, Viterbo Ayvar, C. Gavidia, R. Gilman, Armando E. Gonzalez, H. García   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Taenia solium Cysticercosis and Its Impact in Neurological Disease

Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2020
Taenia solium neurocysticercosis (NCC) is endemic in most of the world and contributes significantly to the burden of epilepsy and other neurological morbidity.
H. García, Armando E. Gonzalez, R. Gilman   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Comparison of a new multiplex real-time PCR with the Kato Katz thick smear and copro-antigen ELISA for the detection and differentiation of Taenia spp. in human stools. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2017
Taenia solium, the cause of neurocysticercosis (NCC), has significant socioeconomic impacts on communities in developing countries. This disease, along with taeniasis is estimated to infect 2.5 to 5 million people globally. Control of T.
Dinh Ng-Nguyen, Mark A Stevenson, Pierre Dorny, Sarah Gabriël, Tinh Van Vo, Van-Anh Thi Nguyen, Trong Van Phan, Sze Fui Hii, Rebecca J Traub   +8 more
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Guideline for Preventive Chemotherapy for the Control of Taenia solium Taeniasis

, 2021
The larval stage of the parasite Taenia solium can encyst in the central nervous system causing neurocysticercosis, which is the main cause of acquired epilepsy in the countries in which the parasite is endemic. Endemic areas are those with the presence (

semanticscholar   +1 more source

Taenia larvae possess distinct acetylcholinesterase profiles with implications for host cholinergic signalling.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2020
Larvae of the cestodes Taenia solium and Taenia crassiceps infect the central nervous system of humans. Taenia solium larvae in the brain cause neurocysticercosis, the leading cause of adult-acquired epilepsy worldwide.
Anja de Lange, Ulrich Fabien Prodjinotho, Hayley Tomes, Jana Hagen, Brittany-Amber Jacobs, Katherine Smith, William Horsnell, Chummy Sikasunge, Dorit Hockman, Murray E Selkirk, Clarissa Prazeres da Costa, Joseph Valentino Raimondo   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source