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3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Unit of Veterinary Helminthology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. p.dorny@itg.be.
Publications dans "Cysticercose" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Veterinary Clinical Centre, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Werribee, Victoria, Australia.
Publications dans "Cysticercose" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
School of Public Health, Oregon Health & Science University and Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America.
Center for Global Health Tumbes, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, San Martín de Porres, Peru.
Publications dans "Cysticercose" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Center for Global Health Tumbes, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, San Martín de Porres, Peru.
Cysticercosis Unit, National Institute of Neurological Sciences, Lima, Peru.
Publications dans "Cysticercose" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Département de Pathologie et Microbiologie, Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire, Université de Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada.
Publications dans "Cysticercose" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Veterinary Clinical Centre, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Werribee, Victoria, Australia.
Publications dans "Cysticercose" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Pathology, Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Dhulikhel, Kavre, Nepal.
Publications dans "Cysticercose" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of History of Science and Documentation, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
Publications dans "Cysticercose" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Infectious Diseases Division, Internal Medicine Department, New Mexico University Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
Publications dans "Cysticercose" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Clinical Medicine Department, Miguel Hernández University, and Alicante Institute for Health and Biomedical Research (ISABIAL), Alicante, Spain.
Publications dans "Cysticercose" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Clinical Medicine Department, Miguel Hernández University, and Alicante Institute for Health and Biomedical Research (ISABIAL), Alicante, Spain.
Publications dans "Cysticercose" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Center for Global Health Tumbes, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
Publications dans "Cysticercose" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Publications dans "Cysticercose" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Neurology, Dayanand Medical College, Ludhiana, India.
Publications dans "Cysticercose" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Neurology, Center for Global Health, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany; Centre for Global Health, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Publications dans "Cysticercose" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Burundi, Bujumbura, Burundi. salvator.minani@ub.edu.bi.
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. salvator.minani@ub.edu.bi.
Laboratory of Foodborne Parasitic Zoonoses, Department of Translational Physiology, Infectiology and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium. salvator.minani@ub.edu.bi.
Publications dans "Cysticercose" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. ctrevisan@itg.be.
Laboratory of Foodborne Parasitic Zoonoses, Department of Translational Physiology, Infectiology and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium. ctrevisan@itg.be.
Publications dans "Cysticercose" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Emergency and Critical Care Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Beijing Institute of Tropical Medicine, Beijing, China.
Beijing Key Laboratory for Research on Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases, Beijing, China.
Publications dans "Cysticercose" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Emergency and Critical Care Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Beijing Institute of Tropical Medicine, Beijing, China.
Beijing Key Laboratory for Research on Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases, Beijing, China.
Publications dans "Cysticercose" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Emergency and Critical Care Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. zouyang1027@163.com.
Beijing Institute of Tropical Medicine, Beijing, China. zouyang1027@163.com.
Beijing Key Laboratory for Research on Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases, Beijing, China. zouyang1027@163.com.
Publications dans "Cysticercose" :
Disseminated cysticercosis is defined by the presence of multiple vesicular cystic lesions in the brain with cysts demonstrable in at least two other body parts. The exact course of disseminated cysti...
Neurocysticercosis is a neuroinfectious disease caused by the larval stage of the tapeworm Taenia solium. Isolated spinal cysticercosis is rare, with limited cases having been reported in the literatu...
This retrospective study included seven patients pathologically diagnosed with spinal cysticercosis. The clinical manifestations, radiological features on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), treatment, ...
This case series consisted of four male and three female patients, with an average age of 34.9 ± 10.9 years. Clinically, six patients manifested with localization-related myelopathy. There were four s...
Spinal cysticercosis is an extremely rare cause of myelopathy. Characteristic MRI features can facilitate preoperative diagnosis. Clinicians should be aware of this entity, and it should be included i...
Orbital metastases secondary to neuroendocrine tumors are exceedingly rare. We present a unique case of a 30-year-old female initially presenting with fever, chills, periorbital swelling, and painful ...
A man in his 20s presented with a painless, slow-growing firm swelling in the anterolateral aspect of his left forearm. The swelling had been present for 1 year and measured 10×12 cm. Clinically, a di...
Cysticercosis is caused by the larvae of...
Ultrasonography findings have been used to diagnose and treat 10 cases of orbital cysticercosis. Although oral prednisolone has a key role in symptomatic alleviation, 3-day albendazole has been demons...
Neurocysticercosis is a parasitic infection of the central nervous system by tapeworm larvae. Spinal cysticercosis is thought to be relatively rare, and spinal nerve root sleeve cysticercosis have not...
A 46-year-old Chinese Han female patient presented with low back pain and radicular pain of the right lower limb. The visual analog scale was 6. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a subarachnoid cyst a...
Subarachnoid cysticercosis may extend to nerve root sleeve causing back pain and radiculopathy, which may present with similar magnetic resonance imaging manifestations to Tarlov cysts. Hence, spinal ...
Ocular cysticercosis is a sparsely reported condition, requiring urgent management. The gold standard for diagnosis is an in toto extraction of the cyst with subsequent histopathology. The procedure c...
Cysticercosis is the leading cause of acquired epilepsy worldwide and has been shown to be highly prevalent in pig populations in western Kenya. We conducted a community-based door-to-door survey in a...
A 20-year-old vegetarian male presented with a history of painful diminution of vision in the right eye for the past month. The patient had dense vitritis. B-scan ultrasonography (USG) revealed two cy...