Infection of the brain, spinal cord, or perimeningeal structures with the larval forms of the genus TAENIA (primarily T. solium in humans). Lesions formed by the organism are referred to as cysticerci. The infection may be subacute or chronic, and the severity of symptoms depends on the severity of the host immune response and the location and number of lesions. SEIZURES represent the most common clinical manifestation although focal neurologic deficits may occur. (From Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1998, Ch27, pp46-50)
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| "Neurocysticercosis is rarely reported in short-term travelers, although the disease remains a major public health problem in tropical regions." | ( Bombana, E; Carosi, G; Chatel, G; El-Hamad, I; Gulletta, M; Matteelli, A; Scolari, C, 1999) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is a helminthiasis of the central nervous system produced by the encysted larvae of the pork tapeworm Taenia solium." | ( Corachan Cuyás, M; Font Puig, C; Muñoz Batet, C; Pardós Arnal, F; Ruiz Postigo, JA, 1999) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is the most common parasitic disease of the central nervous system." | ( de la Peña Elías, C; Higes Pascual, F, 2000) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is a major cause of neurologic illness worldwide." | ( Khandelwal, N; Ray, M; Singhi, P; Singhi, S, 2000) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is an infection of the central nervous system with the pork tapeworm's cysticercus." | ( Iannucci, TA; Suarez, VR, 1999) |
| "In Japan neurocysticercosis is a rare disease." | ( Higuchi, H; Kobayashi, N; Okada, T; Sugiyama, M; Teramoto, A; Yabe, Y, 2000) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is a common neuroparasitosis." | ( Agarwal, V; Chadda, RK; Kumar, P, 2001) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is the most frequent parasitosis of central nervous system in the world." | ( Andriamamonjy, C; Andriantsimahavandy, A; Rajaonarison, P; Ralamboson, S; Ramanampamonjy, R; Ramanantoanina, CE; Razafindratrimo, F; Villeneuve, R, 2001) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is the most frequently observed parasitosis of the central nervous system worldwide." | ( Cavalheiro, S; Gorgulho, AA; Paiva Neto, MA; Zymberg, ST, 2003) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is the main cause of adult-onset seizures in the developing world." | ( Del Brutto, OH; Evans, CA; Garcia, HH; Gilman, RH; Gonzalez, AE; Herrera, G; Martinez, SM; Moulton, LH; Pretell, EJ, 2004) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is a pathology that we are finding nowadays over the immigrant population." | ( Alvarez Rodríguez, E; Cabello, J; Espinós Pérez, D; Gutiérrez Larráinzar, A; Torres-Gárate, R, 2004) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is endemic in certain parts of the world, is rare in Europe and has never previously been described in the Irish healthcare setting." | ( Bergin, C; Bonar, M; Cullen, MJ; Merry, C; Ng, V; Nolan, JJ; Smith, D, 2004) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is the most common parasitic infestation of the central nervous system which manifests commonly as acute onset focal seizures." | ( Devi, A; Kumar, TS; Moses, PD; Scott, JX, 2005) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is a pleomorphic disease due to individual differences in the number and location of the parasites within the nervous system as well as to differences in the severity of the host's immune reaction against the parasite." | ( Del Brutto, OH, 2005) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is a serious public health problem that predominantly affects places with poor sanitary and hygiene conditions." | ( Batista, MS; da Silva Júnior, AN; de Assunção Cordeiro, M; e Silva do Rego Monteiro, AV; Leite, DA; Lima, FC; Lima, RF; Mendes, LC, 2006) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is the most common parasitic infection of the central nervous system." | ( Bouldin, A; Pinter, JD, 2006) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is a common cause of acquired seizure disorder in developing countries, including India." | ( Banerjee, M; Das, K; Mondal, GP; Mukherjee, BB; Singh, OP, 2007) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is the most common parasitic infestation of the central nervous system, which manifests commonly as acute-onset focal seizures." | ( Khandelwal, NK; Mahajan, V; Singhi, P, 2008) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is the most common parasitic disease of the central nervous system." | ( Bouvier, C; Coulibaly, B; Fuentes, S; Gautier, G; Ranque, S, 2008) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is the commonest CNS parasitic disease worldwide but cysticercal meningitis and intraventricular lesions are relatively rare, especially in Indian patients." | ( Garg, A; Kalra, V; Mishra, D; Seth, R; Suri, A, 2009) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is an infection of the brain by the larval stage of the pork tapeworm." | ( Abba, K; Ramaratnam, S; Ranganathan, LN, 2010) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is an infection of the brain by the larval stage of the pork tapeworm." | ( Abba, K; Ramaratnam, S; Ranganathan, LN, 2010) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is an unusual cause of seizure in the New Zealand setting." | ( Heron, P; Pybus, M, 2012) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is the most common cause of acquired epilepsy in the world." | ( Bonato, PS; Bustos, JA; Garcia, HH; Gilman, RH; Gonzales, I; Gonzalez, AE; Horton, J; Lanchote, VL; Lescano, AG; Pretell, EJ; Saavedra, H; Takayanagui, OM, 2011) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is endemic in India, cerebral and ocular manifestations being common." | ( Asole, D; Chawla, V; Lakkas, Y; Shrivastava, M; Sundar, U; Vaidy, M, 2010) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is the most common parasitic infection of the central nervous system." | ( Imam, YZ; Kamel, H; Khan, FY; Shafaee, M, 2011) |
| "Human neurocysticercosis is a severe disease caused by the installation of Taenia solium larvae in the CNS." | ( Jung-Cook, H, 2012) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is the most common parasitosis of the central nervous system." | ( Zymberg, ST, 2013) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is an infection of the central nervous system by the larval stage of Taenia solium." | ( Cuello-García, CA; Pérez-Gaxiola, G; Roldán-Benítez, YM; Villarreal-Careaga, J, 2013) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is a neurologic infection caused by Taenia solium." | ( Jolepalem, P; Wong, CY, 2014) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is a widely prevalent disease in the tropics that causes seizures and a variety into of neurological symptoms in most of the world." | ( Arroyo, G; Balboa, D; Cangalaya, C; García, HH; Gonzales-Gustavson, E; González, AE; Guerra-Giraldez, C; Mahanty, S; Marzal, M; Nash, TE; Orrego, MÁ; Paredes, A, 2013) |
| "Intraspinal neurocysticercosis is an uncommon manifestation that may present as an isolated lesion." | ( Ju, CI; Kim, DM; Kim, SW; Wang, HS, 2014) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is the most frequent neuroparasitosis and is caused by Taenia solium larvae (cysticerci)." | ( Bhana, I; Gupta, PK; Handa, R; Jain, RS; Nagpal, K; Prakash, S; Sisodiya, MS; Vyas, A, 2014) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is the most common parasitic infection of the brain." | ( Naddaf, E; Seeger, SK; Stafstrom, CE, 2014) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is a leading cause of seizures and epilepsy in most of the world, and it occurs when Taenia solium larval cysts infect the central nervous system." | ( Clark, T; Friedland, JS; Garcia, HH; Gilman, RH; Loader, MC; Pajuelo, M; Sterling, C; Verastegui, MR; Watts, NS, 2014) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is a leading cause of acquired epilepsy worldwide and endemic in underdeveloped and developing regions." | ( Burghaus, L; Fink, GR; Gottschalk, A; Meyding-Lamadé, U; Tscherpel, C, 2015) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is the most common parasitic infection of the brain." | ( Mathew, A; Sharma, M; Singh, T, 2015) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is a common cause of seizure disorders in children of Western Nepal." | ( Adhikari, S; B K, G; Bahadur, N; Basnet, S; Gauchan, E; Mishra, R; Rao, KS; Sathian, B; Tiwari, PK, 2017) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is associated with epilepsy in pig-raising communities with poor sanitation." | ( Anderson, MP; Carabin, H; Drevets, DA; Hanas, JS; Hocker, JR; Manoj, JJ; Oommen, A; Prabhakaran, V; Rajshekhar, V; Ramajayam, G, 2018) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is the most common parasitic infection of the nervous system and currently represents a serious public health issue in many regions of Latin America, Asia, and Africa." | ( Arrua, EC; Lima, NF; Salomon, CJ; Silva, LD; Vinaud, MC, 2018) |
| "BACKGROUND Neurocysticercosis is a Taenia solium infection which utilizes the tapeworm as a vector and humans as a definitive host and causes development of cystic lesions in the central nervous system." | ( Hasbun, R; Samannodi, MS; Zhao, A, 2018) |
| "Extraparenchymal neurocysticercosis is the most severe form of cysticercosis, and response to treatment is suboptimal." | ( Carrillo-Mezo, R; Fleury, A; González-Hernández, I; Jung, H; Matus, C; Osorio, R; Romo, ML; Toledo, A, 2019) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is the most frequent helminthiasis of the central nervous system and is caused by the presence of Taenia solium cysticerci." | ( Alves, DSMM; Costa, TL; Isac, E; Lima, NF; Lino Junior, RS; Picanço, GA; Silva, LD; Vinaud, MC, 2019) |
| "Parenchymal neurocysticercosis is a frequent cause of seizures in areas endemic for Taenia solium." | ( Benítez-Ortiz, W; Carpio, A; Rodríguez-Hidalgo, R; Van den Enden, E, 2019) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is the main cause of acquired epilepsy throughout the world and is currently treated with ABZ." | ( Alves, DSMM; Ambrosio, J; Castillo, R; da Costa, TL; de Lima, NF; Fraga, CM; Gomes, TC; Lino-Junior, RS; Picanço, GA; Vinaud, MC, 2019) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is a neglected tropical disease that affects the central nervous system and is the most common cause of human epilepsy acquired in developing countries." | ( Benoit, JP; Elissondo, MC; Espinosa, JP; Fabbri, J; Gamboa, GU; Medici, SK; Pensel, PE, 2020) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is a neurological infection caused by the larva of taenia solium." | ( Al-Gareeb, AI; Al-Saeed, WM; Alkuraishy, HM; Dahash, SL; Oleiwi Al-Kuraishi, AH, 2019) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is the most common parasitic disease of the nervous system, nevertheless, it can remain undetected for a long period of time, especially if it occurs in non endemic areas and regions with low-endemicity." | ( Kostić, A; Kostić, J; Miladinović-Tasić, N; Nikolov, V; Pavlović, M; Stojanović, N; Vidović, N, 2019) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is a major cause of acquired epilepsy." | ( Arroyo, G; Bustos, JA; Del Brutto, OH; Garcia, HH; Gilman, RH; Gonzales, I; Gonzalez, AE; Nash, TE; O'Neal, SE; Pretell, EJ; Saavedra, H; Soto-Becerra, P, 2021) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is a frequent cause of seizures in endemic countries." | ( Goyal, G; Goyal, MK; Hussain, M; Lal, V; Mahesh, KV; Modi, M; Phukan, AC; Sehgal, R, 2020) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is one of the most common parasitic diseases of the brain, it is caused by Taenia solium." | ( Kufel, J, 2020) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is the most common parasitic infection of the central nervous system, brain being the most frequent site." | ( Chowdhury, A; Dubey, S; Lahiri, D; Ray, BK, 2021) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is a significant cause of epilepsy in the tropics." | ( Borbora, D; Devi, KR; Goswami, D; Narain, K; Rajguru, SK; Upadhyay, N, 2021) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is a parasitic infection of the central nervous system by the larval stage of the pork tapeworm and is a common cause of seizures and epilepsy in endemic areas." | ( Abba, K; Monk, EJM; Ranganathan, LN, 2021) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is one of the most common parasitic infections in the central nervous system in children." | ( Thampratankul, L; Veeravigrom, M, 2022) |
| "Racemose neurocysticercosis is an aggressive infection caused by the aberrant expansion of the cyst form of Taenia solium within the subarachnoid spaces of the human brain and spinal cord, resulting in the displacement of the surrounding host tissue and chronic inflammation." | ( Garcia, HH; Nash, TE; Orrego, MA; Vasquez, CM; Verastegui, MR, 2022) |
| "Racemose neurocysticercosis is an aggressive infection caused by the aberrant expansion and proliferation of the bladder wall of the Taenia solium cyst within the subarachnoid spaces of the human brain." | ( Garcia, HH; Laclette, JP; Nash, TE; Orrego, MA; Togneri, K; Vasquez, CM, 2022) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is one of the most common causes of acquired epilepsy worldwide." | ( Blond, BN; Ta, R, 2022) |
| "Disseminated neurocysticercosis is defined as simultaneous involvement of the brain (≥3 cysts) and at least one additional body site/organ." | ( Garg, RK; Jain, A; Kumar, N; Malhotra, HS; Malhotra, KP; Pandey, S; Parihar, A; Rizvi, I; Sharma, PK; Uniyal, R; Verma, R; Wangda, K, 2023) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is an important public health problem in many parts of the world." | ( Akbulut, A; Akgün, B; Balgetir, F; Çalık, M; Enez, M; Özer Balin, Ş; Yıldırım, H, 2022) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is an important public health problem in many parts of the world." | ( Akbulut, A; Akgün, B; Balgetir, F; Çalık, M; Enez, M; Özer Balin, Ş; Yıldırım, H, 2022) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is a parasitic infection of the central nervous system by tapeworm larvae." | ( Ji, K; Li, T; Shang, A; Tao, B, 2023) |
| "Neurocysticercosis is common in regions endemic for Taenia solium." | ( Bottieau, E; Carabin, H; Dorny, P; Fleury, A; Gabriël, S; Jackson, E; Magnussen, P; Makasi, C; Mwape, KE; Ngowi, BJ; Prazeres da Costa, C; Prodjinotho, UF; Ruether, C; Schmidt, V; Stelzle, D; Trevisan, C; Van Damme, I; Winkler, AS; Zulu, G, 2023) |