Neurocysticercosis an uncommon intra-cerebral infection in Malaysia

• Main Authors: Muthusamy, Kalai Arasu, Khairul, A., Waran, V.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malaysian Medical Association 2005
• Subjects: R Medicine
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/24546/1/Neurocysticercosis.pdf; http://eprints.um.edu.my/24546/; http://www.e-mjm.org/2005/v60n4/Neurocysticercosis.pdf

Neurocysticercosis, infection of the central nervous system (CNS) by larvae of the pork tapeworm Taenia solium, is the commonest neuroparasitic infection in humans. However in countries as in Malaysia it poses a diagnostic problem as the disease in not seen amongst the local population; however with...