2001
DOI: 10.34024/rnc.2010.v18.8444
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Neurocisticercose

Abstract: Introdução. A neurocisticercose (NCC) é a infecção parasitária mais comum do sistema nervoso central (SNC). Estima-se que cerca de 50 milhões de pessoas são infectadas nos países em desenvolvimento, sendo considerada endêmica principalmente na América Latina, na América Central, na Ásia e na África. Este artigo se propõe revisar os conhecimentos mais atuais da neurocisticercose, com enfoque para os principais achados clínicos e anatomopatológicos apresentados pelos pacientes, estudos em modelos animais, testes… Show more

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“…The Cysticercus cellulosae larva becomes infective to humans after 60 to 75 days in the tissue and may remain viable in the muscles of the pig for several years or for its entire life (Guimarães et al, 2010).…”
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confidence: 99%
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“…The Cysticercus cellulosae larva becomes infective to humans after 60 to 75 days in the tissue and may remain viable in the muscles of the pig for several years or for its entire life (Guimarães et al, 2010).…”
Section: Pathophysiologymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…When man ingests raw or insufficiently cooked pork, it is digested and under the action of bile and the larva is released, the scolices develop and the suckers attach to the intestinal mucosa, with the rostrum insinuating itself between the villi or inside the Luberkühn crypts in the jejunum, where the acuculae are attached. The posterior vesicle undergoes atrophy and the process of strobilus growth begins (Guimarães et al, 2010). In 60 to 70 days pregnant proglottids are already found and are eliminated in the feces.…”
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