Doenças Neuroinfecciosas

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Short Note On Neurocysticercosis

Gracia Williams

Neurocysticercosis may be a preventable parasitic infection caused by larval cysts (enclosed sacs containing the immature stage of a parasite) of the pork flatworm (Taenia solium). The larval cysts will infect varied components of the body inflicting a condition referred to as cysticercosis. Neurocysticercosis is that the results of accidental uptake of eggs of Taenia solium (ie, pork tapeworm), sometimes because of contamination of food by individuals with taeniasis. In developing countries, neurocysticercosis is that the most typical parasitic malady of the system and is that the main explanation for noninheritable brain disease. Within the , neurocysticercosis is principally a malady of immigrants.