Vaccination against Taenia solium cysticercosis

Flisser, Ana; Lightowlers, Marshall W.

doi:10.1590/s0074-02762001000300012

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“…This agrees with research concluding that educators must be well educated (i.e., have attained a grade 8 education) to convey clear and accurate messages. 25 Possibly, those who have already had a chance to learn at a grade 8 level may be better able to learn in workshops and one-on-one training environments. Farmers with at least a grade 8 education may have been able to learn from the written teaching tools that included flip charts, posters, and handouts, whereas farmers with a lower level of education may have been limited to learning only from the oral presentation.…”

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Evaluating the Efficacy of Teaching Methods Regarding Prevention of Human Epilepsy Caused by Taenia solium Neurocysticercosis in Western Kenya

Wohlgemut

Dewey²,

Levy³

et al. 2010

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Abstract. Taenia solium neurocysticercosis is a major cause of adult-onset epilepsy in developing countries. A questionnaire was administered to 282 Kenyan farmers, followed by a workshop, a second questionnaire, one-on-one training, and a third questionnaire. People who attended workshops were more likely to know how T. solium causes epilepsy in humans in the third visit than the second ( P = 0.001). The likelihood that farmers would tether their pigs 100% of the time, limiting exposure to tapeworm eggs, increased after the first ( P < 0.001) and second visits ( P < 0.001). Farmers were more likely to have heard of Cysticercus cellulosae in the second ( P = 0.001) and third visits ( P = 0.007), and to know how pigs acquire infection in the second ( P = 0.03) and third visits ( P = 0.003). Farmers with at least a grade 8 education were more likely to know how T. solium is transmitted to humans in the second ( P = 0.001) and third visits ( P = 0.009), and were more likely to understand the relationship between epilepsy and T. solium in the second ( P = 0.03) and third visits ( P = 0.03). Grade 8 education may enhance learning from written material. Workshops followed by individual on-farm training enhanced knowledge acquisition and behavior changes. Training local government extension workers contributed to the sustainability of this project.

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Evaluating the Efficacy of Teaching Methods Regarding Prevention of Human Epilepsy Caused by Taenia solium Neurocysticercosis in Western Kenya

Wohlgemut

Dewey²,

Levy³

et al. 2010

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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“…Although ongoing studies over vaccination are encouraging, the most cost-effective perspective for eradication of cysticercosis is by public education and sanitary measures [2,[67][68][69].…”

Section: Control and Preventive Measuresmentioning

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Therapy for neurocysticercosis

Takayanagui

2004

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

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“…Mass anticysticidal treatment either in human or in swine populations, meant to treat possible cases of taeniosis to eliminate the source of tapeworm infection in humans, seems to be useful. 23 Because of its impracticality, however, it is considered more adequate to provide treatment to eliminate tapeworms only in those people previously identified as infected or those at high risk of being carriers. Because of this, we should make every effort to identify individuals with the intestinal form of infection, particularly in our patients because as many as 25% of those with NCC also carry the intestinal form of the T. solium (self-infestation).…”

Section: Neurosurg Focus / Volume 12 / June 2002mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…An alternative approach for the control of taeniasis and cysticercosis due to T. solium is the use of vaccines in pigs. 23 Several other parasitic diseases may involve the CNS such as schistosomiasis, malaria, amebiasis, coenurosis, echinococcosis, paragonimiasis, trichinosis, filariasis, angiostrongylosis, gnathostomiasis, and Toxocara canis encephalitis. 20 There was an alarming increase of the latter during the last two decades, as a result of acquired immune deficiency syndrome.…”

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confidence: 99%

Spinal cord cysticercosis: neurosurgical aspects

Colli¹,

Valênça²,

Carlotti³

et al. 2002

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Object The authors report their experience in the treatment of 12 symptomatic patients with intradural spinal neurocysticercosis. Methods The mean age of the 12 patients was 33 years. There were eight female and four male patients. Cysticercosis was present in association with hydrocephalus in nine cases. In nine of 12 patients the spinal lesion was confined to the thoracic or lumbar spinal cord, and in three the cysticerci occupied the cervical region. In all patients with hydrocephalus nerve root symptoms developed seven to 48 months later (mean 27.6 ± 15.5 months). In one patient hydrocephalus was absent, but he presented with cysticercal meningitis 24 months before spinal cord compression developed. Presenting symptoms suggesting spinal cysticercosis included muscular weakness (67%), pain (67%), and sphincter disturbance (25%). Neurological examination demonstrated a motor deficit in nine patients, sensory deficit in four, and radicular pain in three. The prognosis was worse in patients with moderate-to-severe arachnoiditis and spinal cord compression compared with those with isolated nerve roots involvement in whom outcome was favorable. Ten patients underwent laminectomy, after which neurological status improved in 44%, remained unchanged in 33%, or worsened in 22.2%. Conclusions The authors discuss their findings in these cases. Additionally they briefly review the literature, patho-physiology, and therapeutic and/or surgical strategies involved in this disease.

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Vaccination against Taenia solium cysticercosis

Cited by 24 publications

References 24 publications

Evaluating the Efficacy of Teaching Methods Regarding Prevention of Human Epilepsy Caused by Taenia solium Neurocysticercosis in Western Kenya

Evaluating the Efficacy of Teaching Methods Regarding Prevention of Human Epilepsy Caused by Taenia solium Neurocysticercosis in Western Kenya

Therapy for neurocysticercosis

Spinal cord cysticercosis: neurosurgical aspects

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