مراجعة

Neurocysticercosis in immigrant populations

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Neurocysticercosis in immigrant populations
المؤلفون: Garcia, H.H.
بيانات النشر: Oxford University Press
سنة النشر: 2012
المجموعة: Repositorio - UPCH (Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Humans, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Communicable Disease Control, Disease Transmission, Review, Headache, Treatment Outcome, Albendazole, Brain, Endemic Diseases, Serologic Tests, Serology, Computer Assisted Tomography, Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay, Taenia Solium, Taeniasis, Niclosamide, Cysticercosis, Praziquantel, Enzyme Linked Immunoelectrotransfer Blot, Developing Countries, Neurocysticercosis, Immigrant, Intracranial Hypertension, Antigen Detection, Neuroimaging, Anticonvulsive Agent, Antiparasitic Agents, Seizure, Disease Reservoirs
الوصف: Taenia solium, the pork tapeworm, is endemic in most developing countries. The adult tapeworm only lives in the small intestine of humans, who get infected eating poorly cooked pork with cystic larvae. Tapeworm carriers expel microscopic tapeworm eggs and occasionally tapeworm segments with the stools. In areas with poor sanitation, pigs ingest stools from the environment and become infected with larvae.1 Humans can also get infected with cysticercosis by fecal‐oral contamination, clustering around the houses where a tapeworm carrier lives. In this issue, O’Neal and colleagues report two cases of neurocysticercosis in a family of refugees from Burma who moved to a refugee camp in Thailand and then to the United States.2 In this report, the occurrence of multiple cases in a family demonstrates the focal nature of cysticercosis transmission, suggesting that the detection of a confirmed cysticercosis case should prompt the evaluation of other household members for both symptomatic cysticercosis and intestinal taeniasis. It also adds to reports from other countries published in the journal and elsewhere (including a case report in an immigrant from Laos 3 and a series of neurocysticercosis cases in Israeli travelers 4 ), reflecting the wide areas of endemicity of the disease.
نوع الوثيقة: review
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1708-8305
العلاقة: urn:issn:1708-8305; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/10987Test; Journal of Travel Medicine; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1708-8305.2011.00583.xTest
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2011.00583.x
الإتاحة: https://doi.org/20.500.12866/10987Test
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1708-8305.2011.00583.xTest
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/10987Test
حقوق: info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.esTest
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.909E4BD8
قاعدة البيانات: BASE
الوصف
تدمد:17088305
DOI:10.1111/j.1708-8305.2011.00583.x