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Neurocysticercosis: An Exotic Disease Presenting in Australian Immigrants
Author(s) -
Ralston Mary
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1978.tb131684.x
Subject(s) - neurocysticercosis , taenia solium , cysticercosis , disease , immigration , differential diagnosis , medicine , dementia , hydrocephalus , parasitic disease , pathology , pediatrics , geography , surgery , archaeology
Two cases of neurocysticercosis which occurred in migrant women are reported. This disease, produced from the larval form of the pig tapeworm. Taenia solium , is not endemic in Australia. It is prevalent in Latin America, India, parts of Africa and eastern Europe and some Mediterranean areas. Where the possibility of exposure to this parasite exists, neurocysticercosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of late‐onset epilepsy, hydrocephalus, focal fits, progressive dementia, and in spinal cord tumours.