TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Cysticercosis
A1  - Langston, Shannon M.
A1  - Bales, Brian D.
A2  - Knoop, Kevin J.
A2  - Stack, Lawrence B.
A2  - Storrow, Alan B.
A2  - Thurman, R. Jason
PY  - 2021
T2  - The Atlas of Emergency Medicine, 5e
AB  - The  larval  form  of  the  pork  tapeworm  Taenia  solium  causes  cysticercosis  and  affects  50  million  people  worldwide.  Disease  in  developed  countries  is  usually  due  to  immigration  or  foreign  travel.  Taeniasis  (intestinal  tapeworm)  is  acquired  from  ingesting  cysts  from  undercooked  pork.  Eggs  passed  in  the  stool  from  these  carriers  are  highly  infectious  and  may  survive  in  the  environment  for  months.  Humans  acquire  cysticercosis  from  the  ingestion  of  these  eggs/larva,  usually  through  unhygienic  food  preparation.  Once  the  eggs  are  consumed,  they  hatch,  penetrate  the  bowel  wall,  and  travel  to  the  subcutaneous  tissue,  skeletal  muscle,  and  brain,  though  they  may  involve  any  organ.  Two  distinct  types  of  diseases  exist:  neurocysticercosis  (which  can  be  parenchymal  or  extraparenchymal)  and  extraneural  cysticercosis.  Symptoms  are  dependent  on  the  affected  organ  system;  significant  morbidity  is  associated  with  ocular,  cardiac,  and  neurologic  involvement.  The  larval  worm  will  eventually  die  and  leave  calcified  lesions.  
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PB  - McGraw-Hill
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/19
UR  - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1181051272
ER  -