New understanding about the relationship among neurocysticercosis, seizures, and epilepsy

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders of the brain, and it is a major public health issue because it has neurological, cognitive, psychological, and social consequences, and contributes substantially to the world ’s burden of disease, disability, and mortality [1,2]. Neurocysticercosis (NC) is a neglected parasitic disease of major public health importance because of its unacceptably high morbidity and mortality in endemic developing countries, where the sanitary infrastructure is deficient, as well as in non-endemic developed countries where it is associated with immigration from and travel to endemic regions [3,4].

Source: Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy - February 17, 2021 Category: Neurology Authors: Arturo Carpio, Matthew L. Romo, W. Allen Hauser, Elizabeth A. Kelvin Source Type: research