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Cysticercosis

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Intraocular Inflammation

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Human cysticercosis is the infestation by Cysticercus cellulosae, the larval form of Taenia solium, a tapeworm which parasites pork. When humans become accidental intermediate hosts of these larvae, various tissues can be affected including the eye. Cysticercosis has a worldwide distribution but is especially prevalent in poorer areas of Central and South America, Africa, and Asia, as well as in developed countries with high rates of immigration from endemic areas. It is considered the leading parasitic infection involving the central nervous system (CNS) and the most common tapeworm infection affecting the eye. Although it can occur at any age, younger subjects (especially those under 40) are at higher risk with no sex predilection.

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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Uveitis Service, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Alfredo Balena 190 sala 199, Belo Horizonte, MG, 30.130-100, Brazil

    Daniel Vítor Vasconcelos-Santos MD, PhD

  2. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Rua Espírito Santo, 1634/102 Lourdes, Belo Horizonte, MG, CEP 30.160-031, Brazil

    Fernando Oréfice MD, PhD

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  1. Centre of Ophthalmology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

    Manfred Zierhut

  2. Biomedical Research Centre, Institute of Ophthalmology, Moorfields Eyes Hospital, Department of Medical Retina, UCL, London, United Kingdom

    Carlos Pavesio

  3. School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Hokkaido University Graduate, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

    Shigeaki Ohno

  4. University of Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Fernando Orefice

  5. USC Eye Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Narsing A. Rao

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Vasconcelos-Santos, D.V., Oréfice, F. (2016). Cysticercosis. In: Zierhut, M., Pavesio, C., Ohno, S., Orefice, F., Rao, N. (eds) Intraocular Inflammation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75387-2_129

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