Cysticercosis is a common disease in developing countries, but oral lesions caused by this parasitic infestation are rare. We report here a rare case of oral cysticercosis in a 17 year old male who sought treatment for an asymptomatic nodule of the lower lip that had previously been diagnosed as a mucocele.

T 2nd meeting on a serious emerging parasitic disease, Taenia solium cysticercosis, was held recently in Tanzania. This meeting followed the August 2002 International Action Planning Workshop on the ‘Emergence of the Zoonotic Pork Tapeworm, Taenia solium, as an Important Economic and Public Health Problem in Developing Countries’ held in Arusha, Tanzania. Last year’s workshop was a landmark mee...

The first Taenia solium taeniasis/cysticercosis case in Indonesia has not been clearly recognized or recorded. There has been no regular report of this disease. On a very few occasions, cysticercosis cellulosae cases were reported among post-mortem examinations of slaughtered pigs, particularly in Medan, North Sumatra Province, and Denpasar, Bali Province. Since 1972, the Directorate General of...

UNLABELLED Taenia spp. infections, particularly cysticercosis, cause considerable health impacts in endemic countries. Despite previous evidence of spatial clustering in cysticercosis and the role of environmental factors (e.g. temperature and humidity) in the survival of eggs, little research has explored these aspects of Taenia spp. EPIDEMIOLOGY In addition, there are significant gaps in ou...

Commentaries Controversies in the Management of Cysticercosis Cysticercosis, an infection caused by larvae of the pork tapeworm Taenia solium in human tissues , is a common cause of neurologic disease in most non-Muslim developing countries, where it accounts for more than one-third of adult-onset epilepsy cases (1). Cysticercosis is increasingly diagnosed in patients in industrialized nations;...

In this work, we report the published cases of human and porcine cysticercosis, as well as Taenia solium taeniasis diagnosed in Mexico during the last 10 years. Numerical data allow us to state that this disease remains as a public health problem in our country. Whereas efficient tools have been developed for the diagnosis and prevention of cysticercosis, we strongly recommend further measures ...

Ocular involvement by cysticercosis is uncommon and rare in the anterior chamber. It can give rise to iridocyclitis which can be potentially blinding to the patient. The management is usually surgical. We report a case of 18-year-old girl with large cysticercosis cyst in the anterior chamber. The cyst was removed intact by viscoexpression technique from the anterior chamber of the eye and the p...