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...
Epilepsia é um problema de Saúde Pública afectando cerca 50 milhões de pessoas a nível global, das quais 40 milhões em Países em vias de desenvolvimento, onde também Moçambique faz parte (OMS, 2016).
Em Moçambique, o problema de epilepsia afecta cerca de 4% da população principalmente nas zon...
Background: The zoonotic parasite Taenia solium is endemic in Angónia district, Tete province, Mozambique, though the burden of the disease complex is unknown.
Methods: As part of two cross-sectional studies on human and porcine cysticercosis in the area, unique epidemiological and cost data were colle...
