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Taenia solium (the pork tapeworm) is present in most developing countries, where it is a frequent cause of seizures and other neurological disease. Parasitic larvae invade the human brain, establish, and eventually resolve, leaving a calcified scar. While these lesions are common in endemic regions, and most of these are clinically silent, a proportion of individuals with calcified cysticerci develop...
Toxoplasma gondii is a widespread parasitic pathogen that infects over a third of the world’s population. Following an acute infection, the parasite can persist within its mammalian host as intraneuronal or intramuscular cysts. Cysts will occasionally reactivate, and – depending on the host’s immune status and site of reactivation – encephalitis or myositis can develop. Because these diseases have...
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