NIAID media availability: Seizures following parasitic infection associated with brain swelling

...g in people infected by a parasitic tapeworm. The swellings, called perilesional edemas, form around dead, calcified cysts that result when larvae of taenia solium tapeworms lodge in the brain. The illness caused by T. solium infectionneurocysticercosisis the most common cause of adult-onset seizures an...

Fight begins to eradicate fatal parasite; first vaccines delivered following major funding award

...ercially available thanks to multi-million dollar funding. The parasite taenia solium causes 50 million tapeworm infections and 50,000 deaths from brain ...on for the development of vaccines, of which approximately US$5m is for the taenia solium vaccine. Professor Lightowlers says the vaccination could ultimat...

Albendazole Effective In Reducing Seizures Caused By A Common Parasite

... New research shows an antiparasitic drug appears to help people avoid seizures caused by a common parasite taenia solium.// Researchers speculated treatment with the antiparasitic drug albendazole which they thought might help these patients reduce the number ...

Antiparasitic Drug Effective In Reducing Seizures In Neurocysticercosis Patients

... Neurocysticercosis is an infection of the central nervous system caused by the taenia solium larvae. The condition is considered the most common type of acquired epilepsy around the world. In Latin America//, for example, the disease af...

Taenia in Biological News

Poor Americans in the United States suffer hidden burden of parasitic and other neglected diseases

...this parasitic worm, in whom it causes a lung disease that resembles asthma, as well as liver and brain disease. Cysticercosis, caused by the tapeworm taenia solium, is emerging as the leading cause of epilepsy among Hispanic populations in the US, and toxoplasmosis is an important cause of congenital birth...

A vaccine to kill tapeworm

...s suggest it is nearly 100 per cent effective. The vaccine, developed by a team at the University of Melbourne, Australia, targets a tapeworm called taenia solium. The adult form, caught from eating undercooked pork, grows only inside the human intestine, stealing nutrients from the host. This can be d...

Taenia in Biological Dictionary

Proglottid

...m, containing both male and female reproductive taenia saginata taenia saginata Scientific classification Kingdom: Animal... The following video shows a live proglottid of taenia pisiformis. ... By contacting and expanding the p...

Cestoda

...rms, commonly called tapeworms, that live in the digestive tract of vertebrates as adults and often in the bodies of various animals as juveniles. taenia saginata, the beef tapeworm, can... Cestoda . Turbellaria ... 2.3.2 Cestoda . 3 Classification and evolutionary relationships. 4 Interaction...