DISCUSSION Cysticercosis is the most common parasitic infestation of the CNS, and it is caused by Taenia solium's invasion in its larval stage. The CNS involvement occurs in 60 to 90% of patients with ...

Cysticercosis is a neglected zoonosis caused by Taenia solium, which involves pigs as intermediate hosts, leading to pig cysticercosis (PCC). Humans are the only definitive hosts, harbouring the ...

In a group of forty cases of cysticercosis of the central nervous system, 59% presented with intracranial hypertension due to obstructive hydrocephalus. Ventricular or cisternal cysts, and chronic ...

These NPIs include Chagas disease, cysticercosis, toxocariasis, toxoplasmosis, and trichomoniasis. The threat of parasites is just as high today, as it was just five years ago — the only difference is ...

INTRODUCTION On imaging examinations, soft-tissue calcifications are findings that are as common as they are nonspecific, ranging from a nonspecific local reaction (in response to a traumatic insult) ...

Serological diagnosis of cysticercosis in humans and pigs: Status, limitations and prospects Md. Shahadat Hossain Shafqat Shabir Nicholas Ngwili Lian F. Thomas Franco Harald Falcone Frontiers in ...