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Central Nervous System Parasitic Infections (2):
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Central Nervous System Parasitic Infections
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We summarize the current understanding of protozoa penetration across the blood-brain barrier, focusing on Plasmodium, Babesia, Trypanosoma, Toxoplasma, Acanthamoeba and Balamuthia. Advances in understanding the molecular pathways will offer opportunities for the rational development of novel therap...
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PMID: 20337721
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We present two patients with primary diagnosis of parasitic cysts of CNS, in whom neoplastic etiology was finally confirmed. Differential diagnosis of cystic foci should from the beginning include not only parasitic infections, but also neoplastic diseases, which are much more frequent in Poland at...
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PMID: 19711734
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Zhongguo ji sheng chong xue yu ji sheng chong bing za zhi = Chinese journal of parasitology & parasitic diseases (27)3 2009
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There were 52 male and 26 female patients with a mean age of (34.5+/-11.4) years. Among these patients, 32.1% (25/78) had a history of eating raw, neurocysticercosis accounted for 78.2% (61/78), cerebral sparganosis 15.4% (12/78), cerebral paragonimiasis 3.8% (3/78), and cerebral toxoplasmosis 2.6%...
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PMID: 19852369
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Pathogenic free-living amoebae, such as Acanthamoeba species, Balamuthia mandrillaris, and Naegleria fowleri, are known to cause infections of the central nervous system in human and other animals. In 2001, a case of human encephalitis was reported that was caused by another amoeba with morphologica...
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PMID: 19302010
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La Tunisie medicale (87)2 2009
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There were 101 male and 164 female patients (sex ratio M/F = 0.61) ranging in age from 2 to 84 years (mean age = 38.7). In our series, hydatid cysts involved mainly the kidney (24.1%), the central nervous system (22.6%), the liver (19.6%) and the spleen (11.3%). The other less frequent sites include...
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PMID: 19522445
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We report an unusual patient with multiple infected cerebral hydatid cysts. A 20-year-old man presented with a 2-month history of headache and progressive left-sided hempiparesis. A cerebral CT scan showed a large and heterogeneous parieto-occipital lesion. During surgery an infected hydatid cyst wa...
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PMID: 18342511
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Auris Nasus Larynx (35)1 2008
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This paper presents a case of a 28-year-old male with a seizure episode and a 4-year history of intermittent tinnitus on the left ear. On computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, a density with rim enhancement was found at the temporal lobe, associated with mastoid tegmen destruction and...
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PMID: 17826931
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Journal of Neurology (255)1 2008
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Australasian Radiology (51)5 2007
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Early and non-invasive evaluation of hydatid infestation of brain and spine is of paramount importance, especially in endemic areas. We present a spectrum of imaging findings in neurohydatidosis with a brief review of literature.
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PMID: 17803790
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Neuropathology (27)4 2007
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We describe a 38-year-old man who presented with multiple intracranial and intramedullary abscesses caused by visceral larva migrans. Neurohelminthiasis as a cause of multiple abscesses, though rare, should be entertained as a differential diagnosis particularly in tropical South-east Asian countrie...
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PMID: 17899691
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L' Encephale (33)2 2007
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We report the case of two patients that have been hospitalized first in the Academic Psychiatric Unit of Marrakech for isolates psychiatric disorders and whose scanning revealed the presence of cerebral hydatic cyst and that required a surgical intervention in neurosurgery. Case 1 - Patient 29 years...
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PMID: 17675918
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A major contributing factor to high mortality and morbidity associated with CNS infection is the incomplete understanding of the pathogenesis of this disease. Relatively small numbers of pathogens account for most cases of CNS infections in humans, but it is unclear how such pathogens cross the bloo...
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PMID: 16542662
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We present a case of cerebral infestation by Echinococcosis multilocularis mimicking an infiltrative primary brain tumor. A heavily calcified mass invading the midbrain enhanced in a cauliflower-like fashion with small peripheral nodules present on MR imaging. Perfusion-weighted MR imaging revealed...
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PMID: 16484422
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We described the neurologic manifestations of some of the more common parasitic CNS infections. This review will discuss the presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of the following additional parasitic CNS infections: malaria, microsporidiosis, leishmaniasis, and African trypanosomiasis....
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PMID: 16323101
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Clinical Neuropathology (25)2 2006
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In developing countries hydatidosis is both a medical and economic problem related to environmental hygiene and healthy veterinary practice. This cestode parasitic infestation, uncommonly involving the nervous system, presents with varied clinical manifestation, at times causing diagnostic dilemmas....
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PMID: 16550744
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Trends in Parasitology (22)1 2006
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Epilepsy and onchocerciasis (river blindness) constitute serious public health problems in several tropical countries. There are four main mechanisms that might explain a relationship between these two diseases: (i) the presence of Onchocerca volvulus in the central nervous system; (ii) the pathogen...
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PMID: 16307906
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Rinsho Shinkeigaku (45)11 2005
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Along with the drastic decrease of soil-transmitted intestinal helminthiases, parasitic diseases in general are ignored, or considered as the disease of the past, in Japan. However, due to the Japanese food culture of eating raw materials, food-borne parasitic diseases are still present in Japan. Th...
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PMID: 16447755
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Child's Nervous System (21)11 2005
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We present a secondary infection of an intracranial hydatid cyst due to Clostridium ramosum, which is an extremely rare infectious pathogen in neurosurgical practice, and a potential pitfall in neuroradiological investigations....
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PMID: 15580512
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We will discuss the several patterns of image found in parasitic, bacterial, and fungal granulomatous infections....
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PMID: 16340335
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A unilateral ophthalmomyiasis posterior in a 5-year-old female spayed Domestic Long-haired cat of a third or fourth stage instar Cuterebra spp. larvae is reported. The cat was presented for depression and anorexia. The organism was found on physical examination at presentation. The cat was euthanize...
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PMID: 15762919
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Annals of Saudi Medicine (25)4 2005
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The seroprevalence of H. pylori antibodies was 9%. The prevalence according to age varied from 0% in children under 2 years to 12.5% in age group 9-10 years. There was a correlation between the amounts of positive antibodies and increasing age. The prevalence rate of H. pylori antibodies was also si...
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PMID: 16212122
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We suggest that a differential diagnosis of hydatid cyst should be considered when a brain mass is found in a patient, even 2 years old, from an endemic area of echinococcosis....
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PMID: 15537728
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Parasitology Research (94)1 2004
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Balamuthia mandrillaris is a free-living ameba and an opportunistic agent of lethal granulomatous amebic encephalitis (GAE) in humans and other mammals. Its supposed routes of infection have been largely assumed from what is known about Acanthamoeba spp. and Naegleria fowleri, other free-living ameb...
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PMID: 15338290
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The Lancet (363)9416 2004
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Journal of Neuroimmunology (149)1-2 2004
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We aim at investigating the role of blood born macrophages on the brain reaction to Trypanosoma cruzi infection in suckling rats. This infection provoked the appearance of numerous ED1(+) cells in the neural parenchyma and increased the amount of meningeal and perivascular ED2(+) macrophages. CD8(+)...
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PMID: 15020064
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Acta Radiologica (45)1 2004
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EG lesions were isointense with cerebrospinal fluid in all sequences including DWI. On DWI, EA lesions remained hypointense on b = 1000 s/mm2 diffusion-weighted images. Apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values of EG and EA lesions were completely different from each other, 2.88 +/- 0.24 x 10(-3)...
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PMID: 15164785
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Neuroepidemiology (23)1-2 2004
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Neuroepidemiology (23)3 2004
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We used EMBASE (1974-2002), MEDLINE (1966-2002), and PASCAL (1987-2002) databases and relevant journals and bibliographies. We limited our analysis to the epidemiological studies, where the status regarding onchocerciasis infection and epilepsy was available for each subject. Nine African studies we...
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PMID: 15084784
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A 67-year-old Korean woman attended our hospital complaining of a severe headache. A brain computed tomography scan showed conglomerated, high-density, calcified nodules in the left temporo-occipito-parietal area and high-density subarachnoid hemorrhage in the basal cisterns. Magnetic resonance imag...
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PMID: 14695081
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Internal Medicine Journal (32)11 2002
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We review the seven most common parasitic diseases of the CNS: (i) cysticercosis, (ii) neuroschistosomiasis, (iii) paragonimiasis, (iv) angiostrongyliasis, (v) hydatid disease, (vi) sparganosis and (vii) gnathostomiasis. Major syndromes of parasitic disease of the CNS and their differential causes a...
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PMID: 12412938
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Laryngoscope (112)10 2002
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Hydatid cyst should be suspected during the evaluation of cervical masses, particularly in endemic regions. Hydatid disease infestations are best treated with complete excision of the intact cyst....
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PMID: 12368630
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Seminars in Neurology (22)2 2002
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I (HTLV-I), herpesviruses, enteroviruses, Treponema pallidum, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, fungi, and parasites. Vacuolar myelopathy, the most common form of spinal cord disease in HIV-infected individuals, is underrecognized clinically. The failure to diagnose this condition is generally a consequen...
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PMID: 12524558
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We here report on an organotypic tissue culture model for Neospora infection which can be used to study certain aspects of the cerebral phase of neosporosis within the context of a three-dimensionally organised neuronal network. Organotypic slice cultures of rat cortical tissue were infected with N....
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PMID: 11943226
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Zhongguo ji sheng chong xue yu ji sheng chong bing za zhi = Chinese journal of parasitology & parasitic diseases (20)3 2002
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Among 190 discharged medical histories, 115 cases were valid for investigation, the number of males was 73, females 42, with a ratio of 1.74:1. Among these patients, 20.9% (24/115) had a history of eating raw meat. For discharge diagnosis, neurocysticercosis accounted for 92.2% (106/115), cerebral p...
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PMID: 12568003
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Radiological, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging findings in a case of spinal hydatidosis are reported.
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PMID: 11924139
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We report one case collected in our department. It is about a patient of 28 years old, that the case histories consist in convulsive attacks since the age of 8 years old, hospitalized because of a left hemiparesis with progressive installation. The cerebral computerized tomography showed a right par...
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PMID: 11924143
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A 36-year-old Korean man presented with a history of epilepsy. MR imaging of the brain revealed multiple conglomerated round nodules that were hypointense on both T1-and-T2 weighted images. These were located at the left temporal and occipital lobes and had surrounding encephalomalacia. CT scan conf...
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PMID: 11358200
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Medicinski pregled (54)9-10 2001
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INTRODUCTION: Trichinellosis is an anthropozoonosis caused by Trichinella spiralis. Central nervous system complications can occur during the course of this disease. This paper presents a case of neurotrichinellosis, assayed by using indirect immunofluorescence test. CASE REVIEW: A patient aged 30,...
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PMID: 11876013
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Revista de Neurologia (33)8 2001
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There is a group of tropical infectious and non infectious diseases that may cause cerebral infarcts or hemorrhages. Prompt diagnosis and therapy are needed to reduce the severity or brain damage and to avoid recurrent strokes....
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PMID: 11784973
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Central nervous system (CNS) infections, accounting for 4-29% of CNS lesions in transplant recipients, are a significant post-transplant complication. Focal CNS infectious lesions or brain abscesses have been documented in 0.36-1% of the transplant recipients. Mycelial fungi, particularly Aspergillu...
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PMID: 11429020
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Journal of Neurosurgery (93)1 2000
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Morbidity, mortality, and recurrence rates of hydatidosis uncovered by the cooperative study and the literature survey were not statistically significant....
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PMID: 10883898
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This article reviews the clinical signs, symptoms, and neuroimaging findings of the commonly known rickettsial, spirochetal, and parasitic infections (cysticercosis is covered elsewhere in this issue). Differential diagnoses and significant imaging characteristics are reviewed to help narrow the dia...
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PMID: 10775957
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Neuroradiology (42)3 2000
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We report a 30-year-old man who underwent surgical exploration for a mass in the insular cortex. Histology revealed a densely fibrotic mass heavily infiltrated with plasma cells and lymphocytes, in which were embedded parasitic forms consistent with sparganosis. We describe the MRI appearances and p...
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PMID: 10772144
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We recently described a new procedure to grow nervous tissue as organotypic culture. The main feature of these slice cultures is to maintain a well preserved, three-dimensional organisation of the central nervous tissue. As these cultures can be kept for several weeks (up to three months), we have u...
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PMID: 11043987
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Neuroradiology (41)11 1999
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Cerebral alveolar echinococcosis is rare. We report a case with multiple intracranial masses which show cauliflower-like contrast enhancement pattern on MRI. The lesions originated from hepatic involvement with invasion of the inferior vena cava.
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PMID: 10602860
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A parasitic tapeworm, called Taneia Echinococcus, causes hydatid disease. Hydatid disease is endemic in sheep and cattle-raising areas of the world. Hydatid disease of the central nervous system constitutes 2%-3% of all reported cases of hydatid cysts. In our institution, 23 children underwent surge...
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PMID: 10633303
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We will review recent progress in our knowledge about transmissible spongiformes encephalopathies and AIDS-associated lesions, and briefly discuss cerebral vasculitis, granulomatous diseases and the most frequent infections by parasites....
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PMID: 10582492
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Clinically the most common findings included papilloedema, headache and vomiting. Two of the cases reported recurrence of symptoms and were reoperated. The first 4 cases presented the classical signs of unilocular well defined cysts while the last two cases had multilocular, often polygonal cysts wi...
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PMID: 10778628
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