Neurocysticercosis in Epileptic Children: An Overlooked Condition in Mozambique, Challenges in Diagnosis, Management and Research Priorities
Previous studies suggest that neurocysticercosis (NCC), the most common cause of acute symptomatic seizures (ASS), epilepsy and other neuropsychiatric disorders, typically presents with a solitary lesion and focal seizures in children from places where cysticercosis is endemic. We report a series of 3 pa...
Neurocysticercosis/diagnosis, Antibodies/immunology, Central Nervous System/drug effects, Cysticercosis/complications, Epilepsy/diagnosis, Headache/complications, Parasites, Mozambique/epidemiology, Biomarkers/metabolism, Epilepsy/complications, Epilepsy/drug therapy, Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay/methods