Background: Taenia solium (neuro-)cysticercosis, a neglected tropical disease, can be associated with epileptic seizures and other neuropsychiatric (= neurological and psychiatric) disorders. This study aimed to evaluate the association of T. solium cysticercosis with selected neuropsychiatric disorders ...
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...
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affect more than one billion people living in vulnerable
conditions. In spite of initiatives recently contributing to fill NTDs gaps on national and local prevalence and distribution, more epidemiological data are still needed for effective control and elimination inter...
A cisticercose humana é uma infecção parasitária causada pela
Cysticercus cellulosae, larva da Taenia solium. O homem adquire a infecção quando
ingere água ou alimentos contaminados por fezes humanas contendo ovos da T.
solium. O controlo da ci...
A cisticercose humana é uma infecção parasitária causada pela
Cysticercus cellulosae, larva da Taenia solium. O homem adquire a infecção quando
ingere água ou alimentos contaminados por fezes humanas contendo ovos da T.
solium. O controlo da cisticercose humana é dificultado devido a ausência de...
A randomized controlled field trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a single oral dose of 30 mg/kg of oxfendazole (OFZ) treatment for control of porcine cysticercosis was conducted in 4 rural villages of Angónia district, north-western Mozambique. Two hundred and sixteen piglets aged 4 months were sele...
The objective of this paper is to critically review and summarize available scientific and lay literature, and ongoing studies on human and porcine cysticercosis in Mozambique to identify knowledge gaps and direct immediate and long-term research efforts. Data on the spatial distribution and prevalence o...
Taenia solium is an important zoonosis in many developing countries. Cysticercosis poses a serious public health risk and incurs sizeable economic losses to pig production. Because data on the epidemiology of porcine cysticercosis in Mozambique are scarce, the present study was conducted to determine the...
