Extensive disseminated cysticercosis: a case report in Yunnan province, China

Cysticercosis is spreading all over the world and it is a major health problem in most countries of Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Extensive disseminated cysticercosis is relatively rare and fewer than 120 case have been reported in the worldwide. We reported a rare case of extensive disseminated...

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Published in:BMC infectious diseases 2019-06, Vol.19 (1), p.535-5, Article 535
Main Authors: Zang, Xin-Zhong, Li, Huan-Zhang, Qian, Men-Bao, Chen, Ying-Dan, Zhou, Chang-Hai, Liu, Hong-Kun, Liu, Yu-Hua, Li, Shi-Zhu
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Calcification
Case Report
Case reports
Case studies
China
Control
Cysticercosis
Cysticercosis - diagnosis
Cysticercosis - diagnostic imaging
Disease
Elderly
Epidemiology
Etiology
Extensive disseminated cysticercosis
Health
Health aspects
Health education
Hospitals
Humans
Infections
Infectious diseases
Intervention
Life cycles
Male
Medical imaging
Meteors & meteorites
Middle Aged
Nervous system
Patients
Pork
Praziquantel
Risk factors
Taenia solium
Tapeworm diseases
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Tropical diseases
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Summary:Cysticercosis is spreading all over the world and it is a major health problem in most countries of Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Extensive disseminated cysticercosis is relatively rare and fewer than 120 case have been reported in the worldwide. We reported a rare case of extensive disseminated cysticercosis in Yunan province, China. A rare case of extensive disseminated cysticercosis, in a 61-year-old male Chinese was detected from Yunnan province in 2018. Clinical and etiological examination was performed, as well as the epidemiological investigation. The life cycle of T. solium in the area where the case came from is complete. We expect this case could raise the attentions to the control of Taenia solium infection and subsequent cysticercosis there.
ISSN:1471-2334
1471-2334
DOI:10.1186/s12879-019-4172-3