1.Nervous complications in cerebral cysticercosis
Journal of Practical Medicine 2004;480(5):30-31
Studty was conducted on 42 patients (32 males and 10 females, aged 14-55 years old) with taenia soluincyst in brain. The cyst was common at the age 20-49 years old, female 23.81% and male 76.19%. There was a diversity of nervous syndromes in both 2 hemispheres of brain, the most were intern-cerebral high pressure 95.2% and epilepsy 54.74%. Active forms of cyst accounted for 73.81%, needed for treating CT images of skull and brain showed a dispersion of the cyst in both 2 hemispheres of brain, consisted with the clinical symptoms.
Cysticercosis/complications
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Taenia
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Brain
2.Ptosis due to parasitic infestation.
Singapore medical journal 2010;51(2):178-178
3.Impact of the neglected Cysticercus cellulose infection on mental health among school-aged children in Tibetan agricultural areas.
Ruixue YE ; Yuju WU ; Qingzhi WANG ; Min CAO ; Tiaoying LI ; Xingwang CHEN ; Huan ZHOU
Journal of Central South University(Medical Sciences) 2018;43(10):1137-1144
To determine the impact of Cysticercus cellulose (C. cellulose) infection on mental health among school-aged children in Tibetan agricultural areas of Sichuan Province.
Methods: In October 2015, all primary schools located in Tibetan agricultural areas in Yajiang, Ruoergai, and Muli county of Sichuan Province were selected as the research sites. All school-aged children at five- and six-grade were enrolled for the study by a multistage stratified cluster sampling method. Antibodies against C. cellulose were detected. Mental Health Test and questionnaire survey were conducted for school-aged children to collect data. The impact of C. cellulose infection on mental health among school-aged children was analyzed with the multilevel linear regression.
Results: A total of 2 453 school-aged children were investigated. The C. cellulose seropositive rate was 6.03% (148/2 453). There were 0.16% (4/2 453) patients with seropositive accompanied by seizure, 2.28% (56/2 453) with seropositive accompanied by headache, 2.08% (51/2 453) with seropositive accompanied by frequent weak, and 0.41% (10/2 453) were seropositive accompanied by frequent nausea. The rate of C. cellulose infection was 4.53% (111/2 453). The mean score of the mental health test was 6.59±2.61. There were significant difference in score of mental health test in children whose demographic characteristics were different. The mental health scores of school-aged children were clustered at the school level. After controlling the factors of demographic characteristics, the result of multilevel model demonstrated that the factor of school-aged children with C. cellulose seropositive accompanied by headache was statistically significant (β=1.14, P=0.017).
Conclusion: The status of C. cellulose infection among school-aged children in Tibetan agricultural areas is not optimistic. C. cellulose infection has impacted on mental health of local school-aged children. It is necessary to strengthen the prevention and control of C. cellulose infection in epidemic area.
Animals
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Child
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Cysticercosis
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complications
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diagnosis
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epidemiology
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Cysticercus
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Humans
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Mental Health
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Neurodevelopmental Disorders
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epidemiology
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etiology
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Seroepidemiologic Studies
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Tibet
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epidemiology
4.Seroepidemiological observation of Taenia solium cysticercosis in epileptic patients in Korea.
Yoon KONG ; Seung Yull CHO ; Myung Shin CHO ; Oh Sang KWON ; Woo Shik KANG
Journal of Korean Medical Science 1993;8(2):145-152
Prevalence survey of neurocysticercosis was made in a mixed epilepsy patients of Changmi Club in Korea. From February 1987 to July 1990, a total of 2,667 randomly selected patients at 27 local centers was tested for their serum levels of anti-Cysticercus antibody (IgG) by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Positive rate of the antibody was 4.0% in the examined patients. The standardized antibody positive rate by provincial population was 3.1%. The rate was the highest in patients living in Cheju Do (8.4%). The patient age brackets of 0 approximately 9 years and over 50-year showed higher positive rates of the antibody. In 750 normal persons who checked up routine physical examination, the antibody positive rate was 2.1% (standardized rate was 1.8%). These seroepidemiological data disclosed for the first time the prevalence of cysticercosis in epileptic patients and in population.
Adolescent
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Adult
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Age Factors
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Aged
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Animals
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Antibodies, Helminth/*blood
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Child
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Child, Preschool
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Cysticercosis/complications/*epidemiology
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Cysticercus/*immunology
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Epilepsy/*complications
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Infant, Newborn
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Korea/epidemiology
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Male
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Middle Aged
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Sex Factors