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https://read.qxmd.com/read/35404983/prevalence-and-factors-associated-with-human-taenia-solium-taeniosis-and-cysticercosis-in-twelve-remote-villages-of-ranomafana-rainforest-madagascar
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Anjanirina Rahantamalala, Rado Lalaina Rakotoarison, Emma Rakotomalala, Mahenintsoa Rakotondrazaka, Jaydon Kiernan, Paul M Castle, Lee Hakami, Koeun Choi, Armand Solofoniaina Rafalimanantsoa, Aina Harimanana, Patricia Wright, Simon Grandjean Lapierre, Matthieu Schoenhals, Peter M Small, Luis A Marcos, Inès Vigan-Womas
BACKGROUND: Infections with the tapeworm Taenia solium (taeniosis and cysticercosis) are Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) highly endemic in Madagascar. These infections are however underdiagnosed, underreported and their burden at the community level remains unknown especially in rural remote settings. This study aims at assessing the prevalence of T. solium infections and associated risk factors in twelve remote villages surrounding Ranomafana National Park (RNP), Ifanadiana District, Madagascar...
April 2022: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34963579/evaluation-of-recombinant-glutathione-transferase-26-kda-thioredoxin-1-and-endophilin-b1-of-taenia-solium-in-the-diagnosis-of-human-neurocysticercosis
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Lucía Jiménez, Narda Karina Castro-Nolasco, Agnès Fleury, Sylvia Páz Díaz-Camacho, Alicia Ochoa-Sánchez, Abraham Landa
Neurocysticercosis caused by Taenia solium larvae is a neglected disease that persists in several countries, including Mexico, and causes a high disability-adjusted life year burden. Neuroimaging tools such as computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging are the most efficient for its detection, but low availability and high costs in most endemic regions limit their use. Serological methods such as lentil lectin-purified glycoprotein enzyme-linked immunoelectrotransfer blot antibody detection and monoclonal antibody-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays for HP10 antigen detection have been useful in supporting the diagnosis of this disease...
December 26, 2021: Acta Tropica
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34924747/socio-economic-and-health-costs-of-porcine-human-cysticercosis-neurocysticercosis-and-epilepsy-to-small-scale-pig-producers-in-tanzania
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REVIEW
Emmanuel Nestory Kayuni
Background: Porcine cysticercosis, human cysticercosis, neurocysticercosis, and epilepsy pose a serious public health risk and lead to economic losses to the small-scale pig farmers in Tanzania's rural areas. It also resulted in lowering the pig's prices, high treatment expenses, lower labour productivity, and social discrimination. In Tanzania, small-scale pig producers are unaware of the methods that are used to manage and prevent the diseases associated with Taenia solium . Main body: The main goal of the reviewed article was to investigate the socio-economic and health costs of porcine/human cysticercosis, neurocysticercosis, and epilepsy on small-scale pig producers in Tanzania...
2021: Bulletin of the National Research Centre
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34861092/human-health-and-economic-impact-of-neurocysticercosis-in-uganda
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Fabian Dupont, Chiara Trevisan, Joyce Moriku Kaducu, Emilio Ovuga, Veronika Schmidt, Andrea S Winkler, Brecht Devleesschauwer
OBJECTIVE: Neurocysticercosis (NCC), caused by the pork tapeworm Taenia solium, is a major cause of acquired epilepsy in endemic regions. The Republic of Uganda, one of the great-lakes nations in East Africa, has undergone major strives of political instability in the past century, impeding control of T. solium and other foodborne diseases. Building on data on the epidemiology of NCC, we aimed to assess the health and economic impact of NCC-associated epilepsy and headache in Uganda...
January 2022: Tropical Medicine & International Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34838117/spatial-distribution-and-risk-factors-for-human-cysticercosis-in-colombia
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Erika Galipó, Matthew A Dixon, Claudio Fronterrè, Zulma M Cucunubá, Maria-Gloria Basáñez, Kim Stevens, Astrid Carolina Flórez Sánchez, Martin Walker
BACKGROUND: Cysticercosis is a zoonotic neglected tropical disease (NTD) that affects humans and pigs following the ingestion of Taenia solium eggs. Human cysticercosis poses a substantial public health burden in endemic countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) aims to target high-endemicity settings with enhanced interventions in 17 countries by 2030. Between 2008 and 2010, Colombia undertook a national baseline serosurvey of unprecedented scale, which led to an estimated seroprevalence of T...
November 27, 2021: Parasites & Vectors
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34765526/my-experience-on-taeniasis-and-neurocysticercosis
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Kashi Nath Prasad
Taeniasis and neurocysticercosis (NCC) are major public health problems in developing countries. NCC is the leading cause of community-acquired active epilepsy. NCC may present as a medical emergency, especially when there is cysticercotic encephalitis or raised intracranial hypertension. Systematic community-based studies on taeniasis and NCC are lacking. We studied taeniasis and NCC-related active epilepsy disease burden in the pig farming community of Lucknow district, Uttar Pradesh, India. Based on the 30 cluster sampling approach as recommended by the World Health Organization, we estimated the prevalence of taeniasis, NCC-related active epilepsy, and silent NCC in the community...
2021: Tropical Parasitology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34705827/validation-of-a-spatial-agent-based-model-for-taenia-solium-transmission-cystiagent-against-a-large-prospective-trial-of-control-strategies-in-northern-peru
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Ian W Pray, Francesco Pizzitutti, Gabrielle Bonnet, Eloy Gonzales-Gustavson, Wayne Wakeland, William K Pan, William E Lambert, Armando E Gonzalez, Hector H Garcia, Seth E O'Neal
BACKGROUND: The pork tapeworm (Taenia solium) is a parasitic helminth that imposes a major health and economic burden on poor rural populations around the world. As recognized by the World Health Organization, a key barrier for achieving control of T. solium is the lack of an accurate and validated simulation model with which to study transmission and evaluate available control and elimination strategies. CystiAgent is a spatially-explicit agent based model for T. solium that is unique among T...
October 2021: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34379534/vaccine-for-a-neglected-tropical-disease-taenia-solium-cysticercosis-fight-for-eradication-against-all-odds
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REVIEW
Rimanpreet Kaur, Naina Arora, Suraj S Rawat, Anand Kumar Keshri, Shubha Rani Sharma, Amit Mishra, Gagandeep Singh, Amit Prasad
INTRODUCTION: Taenia solium infection is among the 17 most neglected tropical diseases identified by World Health Organization and to be eradicated by 2030. This parasite infects the central nervous system (Neurocysticercosis [NCC]) and intestine [Taeniasis]). NCC is the most frequent cause of acquired epilepsy in endemic regions and Taeniasis is responsible for the widespread malnutrition and abdominal discomfort among children. Epilepsy caused by T. solium is preventable and the total elimination of NCC can be achieved by good hygiene, mass therapy, and most importantly vaccination of pigs or humans...
November 2021: Expert Review of Vaccines
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34228854/neurocysticercosis-and-hiv-aids-co-infection-a-scoping-review
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REVIEW
Paul D Jewell, Annette Abraham, Veronika Schmidt, Kevin G Buell, Javier A Bustos, Hector H Garcia, Matthew A Dixon, Martin Walker, Bernard J Ngowi, Maria-Gloria Basáñez, Andrea S Winkler
OBJECTIVES: Neurocysticercosis (NCC) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have a high disease burden and are prevalent in overlapping low- and middle-income areas. Yet, treatment guidance for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH/A) co-infected with NCC is currently lacking. This study aims to scope the available literature on HIV/AIDS and NCC co-infection, focusing on epidemiology, clinical characteristics, diagnostics and treatment outcomes. METHODS: The scoping literature review methodological framework, and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines were followed...
October 2021: Tropical Medicine & International Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34115758/a-qualitative-assessment-of-the-context-and-enabling-environment-for-the-control-of-taenia-solium-infections-in-endemic-settings
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nicholas Ngwili, Nancy Johnson, Raphael Wahome, Samuel Githigia, Kristina Roesel, Lian Thomas
BACKGROUND: Taenia solium (T. solium), is a zoonotic helminth causing three diseases namely; taeniasis (in humans), neurocysticercosis (NCC, in humans) and porcine cysticercosis (PCC, in pigs) and is one of the major foodborne diseases by burden. The success or failure of control options against this parasite in terms of reduced prevalence or incidence of the diseases may be attributed to the contextual factors which underpin the design, implementation, and evaluation of control programmes...
June 2021: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34041288/neurocysticercosis-current-perspectives-on-diagnosis-and-management
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REVIEW
Caitlin Butala, T M Brook, Ayodele O Majekodunmi, Susan Christina Welburn
Porcine cysticercosis, human taeniasis, and (neuro)cysticercosis are endemic in many low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) where they present a significant health burden to affected communities. Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is one of the leading causes of human epilepsy in many hyperendemic regions in Latin America, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports an estimated 2.5-8.3 million cases of NCC annually with a disability-adjusted life year (DALY) burden of 2.8 million, but as for all neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), these values are likely to be underestimated...
2021: Frontiers in Veterinary Science
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34024358/taenia-solium-taeniasis-cysticercosis-from-parasite-biology-and-immunology-to-diagnosis-and-control
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Matthew A Dixon, Peter Winskill, Wendy E Harrison, Maria-Gloria Basáñez
Infection with the pork tapeworm (Taenia solium) is responsible for a substantial global burden of disease, not only restricted to its impact on human health, but also resulting in a considerable economic burden to smallholder pig farmers due to pig cysticercosis infection. The life-cycle, parasitology and immunology of T. solium are complex, involving pigs (the intermediate host, harbouring the larval metacestode stage), humans (the definitive host, harbouring the adult tapeworm, in addition to acting as accidental intermediate hosts) and the environment (the source of infection with eggs/proglottids)...
2021: Advances in Parasitology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/33803565/potential-parasitic-causes-of-epilepsy-in-an-onchocerciasis-endemic-area-in-the-ituri-province-democratic-republic-of-congo
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Melissa Krizia Vieri, Michel Mandro, Chiara Simona Cardellino, Pierantonio Orza, Niccolò Ronzoni, Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo, An Hotterbeekx, Robert Colebunders
A high burden of epilepsy is observed in Africa where parasitological infections are endemic. In 2016, in an Onchocerciasis endemic area in the Logo health zone, in Ituri province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a door-to-door study showed an epilepsy prevalence of 4.6%, and 50.6% of persons with epilepsy were infected with Onchocerca volvulus . In the current study, the serum of 195 people infected with O. volvulus persons with epilepsy were tested to determine the proportion of co-infections with Taenia solium, Toxocara canis and Strongyloides ...
March 18, 2021: Pathogens
https://read.qxmd.com/read/33755677/data-driven-analyses-of-behavioral-strategies-to-eliminate-cysticercosis-in-sub-saharan-africa
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Laura A Skrip, Veronique Dermauw, Pierre Dorny, Rasmané Ganaba, Athanase Millogo, Zékiba Tarnagda, Hélène Carabin
BACKGROUND: The multi-host taeniosis/cysticercosis disease system is associated with significant neurological morbidity, as well as economic burden, globally. We investigated whether lower cost behavioral interventions are sufficient for local elimination of human cysticercosis in Boulkiemdé, Sanguié, and Nayala provinces of Burkina Faso. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Province-specific data on human behaviors (i.e., latrine use and pork consumption) and serological prevalence of human and pig disease were used to inform a deterministic, compartmental model of the taeniosis/cysticercosis disease system...
March 2021: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/33665082/cerebral-cysticercosis-in-a-wild-bengal-tiger-panthera-tigris-tigris-in-bhutan-a-first-report-in-non-domestic-felids
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Yoenten Phuentshok, Kinley Choden, Cristian A Alvarez Rojas, Peter Deplazes, Sonam Wangdi, Kuenzang Gyeltshen, Karma Rinzin, Nirmal Kumar Thapa, Tenzinla Tenzinla, Dechen Dorjee, Marc Valitutto, Martin Gilbert, Boripat Siriaroonrat, Waleemas Jairak, Chutchai Piewbang, Puspa Maya Sharma, Tshewang Dema, Ratna Bahadur Gurung
The endangered Bengal tiger ( Panthera tigris tigris ) is a keystone species playing an essential role in ecology as well as in the social and spiritual lives of the Himalayan people. The latest estimate of the Bengal tiger population in Bhutan accounts for 103 individuals. Infectious organisms, including zoonotic parasites causing high burden in human health, have received little attention as a cause of mortality in tigers. Taeniosis/cysticercosis, caused by the cestode Taenia solium , is considered one of the major neglected tropical diseases in Southeast Asia...
April 2021: International Journal for Parasitology. Parasites and Wildlife
https://read.qxmd.com/read/33587139/natural-history-of-extraparenchymal-neurocysticercosis
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Ilse Murrieta, Ximena Flores, Rocío Osorio, Jan Kuschick Feher, Roger Carrillo-Mezo, Agnès Fleury
BACKGROUND: In patients affected by neurocysticercosis (NCC), the extraparenchymal location of the parasites generates the most severe form of the disease. Due to the difficulty in its diagnosis and management, there are still many questions; in particular, the natural history of parasites at this location is not well known. METHODS: We included 21 patients with vesicular extraparenchymal NCC who had not received treatment for at least 18 months. We collected their demographic and clinical data, compared their imaging studies at the beginning and the end of the period without treatment and classified the patients, taking into account the evolution of their parasitic burden...
February 15, 2021: Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
https://read.qxmd.com/read/33338060/knowledge-practices-and-seroprevalence-of-taenia-species-in-smallholder-farms-in-gauteng-south-africa
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Nothando Altrecia Shongwe, Charles Byaruhanga, Pierre Dorny, Veronique Dermauw, Daniel Nenene Qekwana
Porcine cysticercosis and associated human infections are endemic in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Poor agricultural practices, sanitary practices, and lack of knowledge increase the burden of the diseases in susceptible populations. This study investigates the seroprevalence of Taenia spp. in township pigs in Gauteng, South Africa and describes knowledge and farming practices of pig farmers regarding T. solium infections. Blood samples were collected from 126 pigs in three Gauteng township areas, and analyzed for active Taenia spp...
2020: PloS One
https://read.qxmd.com/read/33269789/the-local-inflammatory-profile-and-predictors-of-treatment-success-in-subarachnoid-neurocysticercosis
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Sarah Harrison, Lauren Thumm, Theodore E Nash, Thomas B Nutman, Elise M O'Connell
BACKGROUND: Subarachnoid neurocysticercosis (SANCC) represents the most severe and difficult to treat form of neurocysticercosis. The inflammatory response contributes significantly to the morbidity and mortality of the disease. This study sought to understand the nature and evolution of the inflammation associated with SANCC, and evaluate for predictors of time to cure. METHODS: There were 16 subjects with SANCC (basilar cistern, sylvian fissure, and/or spinal involvement) during active infection who had cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) cytokine and chemokine profiling, of whom 9 had a second CSF sample at (or following) the time of cure...
May 4, 2021: Clinical Infectious Diseases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/33213334/distinct-forms-of-spinal-cysticercosis-a-vietnamese-case-series
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Nguyen D Hung, Nguyen M Duc, Than V Sy, Le T Dung, Trinh A Tuan, Nguyen D Hue
INTRODUCTION: Neurocysticercosis (NCC), a major contributor to the burden of seizure disorders and epilepsy in the world, is one of the most common parasitic infections of the central nervous system, which is usually located in the brain. Medical therapy for NCC should initially cover appropriate symptom control and then the use of antiparasitic agents should be considered. Antiparasitic treatment is of benefit in most cases of viable and degenerating NCC. Nevertheless, cysticercosis of the spinal cord is very uncommon...
2021: Current medical imaging
https://read.qxmd.com/read/33075045/effects-of-the-vicious-worm-educational-software-on-taenia-solium-knowledge-among-key-pork-supply-chain-workers-in-zambia
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Victor Vaernewyck, Kabemba Evans Mwape, Chishimba Mubanga, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Sarah Gabriël, Chiara Trevisan
The neglected zoonotic cestode Taenia solium is endemic in many low- and middle-income countries, including Zambia. The parasite infects humans and pigs, inflicting high socioeconomic and disease burdens in endemic areas. Health education is regarded as an important component in T. solium control and previous studies indicate that 'The Vicious Worm' may be an effective T. solium health education tool for Tanzanian medical and agricultural professionals and Zambian primary school students. This study aimed to assess the effects of health education using 'The Vicious Worm' among Zambian pork supply chain workers, because the pork supply chain greatly influences food safety and security in Zambia...
October 19, 2020: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
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