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Cysticercosis
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Cysticercosis refers to tissue infection after exposure to eggs of Taenia solium, the pork tapeworm. The disease is spread via the fecal-oral route through contaminated food and water, and is primarily a food borne disease. After ingestion the eggs pass through the lumen of the intestine into the tissues and migrate preferentially to the brain and muscles. There they form cysts that can persist for years. In some cases the cysts will eventually cause an inammatory reaction presenting as painful nodules in the muscles and seizures when the cysts are located in the brain. Symptomatic disease from Taenia solium cysts in the brain is referred to as neurocysticercosis and is the most common helminthic (tapeworm) infection of the brain worldwide.[1] Cysticercosis should be differentiated from taeniasis: carriage of the adult tapeworm in the intestine (which is through ingestion of cysts in an intermediate host, not the ingestion of the eggs as in cysticercosis). These represent two different stages of the parasites life cycle. Though both forms of infection can potentially occur in the same individual at the same time, they are distinct disease entities and have different treatments and potential outcomes.[2]
Cysticercosis
Classication and external resources
Contents
1 Agent 2 History of discovery 3 Transmission 4 Morphology 5 Life cycle 6 Clinical presentations in humans 6.1 Cysticercosis in muscles 6.2 Neurocysticercosis 6.2.1 Intraventricular neurocysticercosis 6.2.2 Racemose neurocysticercosis 6.2.3 Spinal neurocysticercosis 6.3 Ophthalmic cysticercosis 6.4 Subcutaneous cysticercosis 7 Diagnosis 8 Management and therapy 8.1 Neurocysticercosis 8.2 Ophthalmic cysticercosis 8.3 Subcutaneous cysticercosis 9 Public health and prevention strategies 9.1 Intervention by concurrent treatment of humans and pigs 9.2 Limitations 9.3 Vaccine against porcine cysticercosis 9.4 The S3PVAC vaccine 9.5 Limitations of vaccines 9.6 Other types of interventions and limitations 10 Epidemiology 11 In popular culture 12 External links 13 References
Magnetic resonance image of a patient with neurocysticercosis demonstrating multiple cysticerci within the brain. ICD-10 B69 (http://apps.who.int /classications/icd10/browse /2010/en#/B69) ICD-9 123.1 (http://www.icd9data.com /getICD9Code.ashx?icd9=123.1) DiseasesDB 3341 (http://www.diseasesdatabase.com /ddb3341.htm) MedlinePlus 000627 (http://www.nlm.nih.gov /medlineplus/ency/article /000627.htm) eMedicine emerg/119 (http://www.emedicine.com/emerg /topic119.htm) med/494 (http://www.emedicine.com /med/topic494.htm#) ped/537 (http://www.emedicine.com /ped/topic537.htm#) MeSH D003551 (http://www.nlm.nih.gov /cgi/mesh/2011/MB_cgi?eld=uid& term=D003551)
Agent
The cause of human cysticercosis is the larval form of Taenia solium (pork tapeworm). T. solium is a member of Phylum Platyhelminthes, class Cestoda, Order Cyclophyllidea and family Taeniidae. The common larval stage of T. solium was also known as Cysticercus cellulosae.
History of discovery
The earliest reference to tapeworms were found in the works of ancient Egyptians that date back to almost 2000 BC.[3] The description of measled pork in the History of Animals written by Aristotle (384322 BC) showed that the infection of pork with tapeworm was known to ancient Greeks at that time.[3] It was also known to Jewish[4] and later to early Muslim physicians and has been proposed as one of the reasons for pork being forbidden by Jewish and Islamic dietary laws.[5] Recent examination of evolutionary histories of hosts and parasites and DNA evidence show that over 10,000 years ago, ancestors of modern humans in Africa became exposed to tapeworm when they scavenged for food or preyed on antelopes and bovids, and later passed the infection on to domestic animals such as pigs.[6]
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An African cysticercosis research was allegedly referred to by Du Huan in the 8 c. China. Cysticercosis was described by Johannes Udalric Rumler in 1555; however, the connection between tapeworms and cysticercosis had not been recognized at that time.[7] Around 1850, Friedrich Kchenmeister fed pork containing cysticerci of T. solium to humans awaiting execution in a prison, and after they had been executed, he recovered the developing and adult tapeworms in their intestines.[3][7] By the middle of the 19th century, it was established that cysticercosis was caused by the ingestion of the eggs of T. solium.[8]
Transmission
Humans are T. solium reservoirs. They are infected by eating undercooked pork that contains viable cysticerci. The cysticercus develops into an adult tape worm in the gut and produces large numbers of eggs which pass out in the feces. The presence of an adult tape worm in the gut is reasonably harmless.[9] The condition known as cysticercosis in humans occurs due to the ingestion of tape worm eggs, either from external sources or from the person's own feces. The human has then become an accidental and "dead-end" intermediate host (that is, the infection can not progress any further).[9] Pigs, which are the "normal" intermediate host for this parasite, get infected with cysticerci when they ingest human feces. The incubation period ranges from months to over ten years.[10]
Scolex (head) of Taenia solium
Morphology
T. solium worms may reach a length of several meters.[9] The scolex has four suckers, and a double crown of prominent hooks, which attach to the intestinal mucosa.[9] T. solium eggs are spherical and 30 to 40 m in diameter.[10] The cysticercus larva completes development in about 2 months. It is semitransparent, opalescent white, and elongate oval in shape and may reach a length of 0.6 to 1.8 cm.[9]
Life cycle
The life cycle involves humans as a denite host and pigs as an intermediate host. Pigs ingest contaminated food or water that contains eggs or proglottids from human feces. The eggs (ova) develop into cysticerci in pig muscles. Humans become infected when they ingest raw or undercooked pork that contain viable cysticerci. Upon reaching the small intestine, the scolex attaches to the intestinal wall and a proglottid chain grows. T. solium releases three to six proglottids/day, bearing 30,000 to 70,000 eggs per proglottid into the intestine. Nearly 250,000 ova are passed daily into the human feces and to the environment, and the cycle continues.[10] Infections with cysticercus occur after humans consume the ova from exogenous sources or through self-infection via the fecal-oral route. Humans, in this case, are intermediate hosts. Ova are digested in the stomach and release oncospheres which penetrate the intestinal wall and reach the bloodstream.[11] These oncospheres develop into cysticerci in any organ but are common in brain, subcutaneous tissue, or eyes.
Neurocysticercosis
The term neurocysticercosis is generally accepted to refer to cysts in the parenchyma of the brain. It presents with seizures and, less commonly, headaches.[12] Intraventricular neurocysticercosis Cysts located within the ventricles of the brain can block the outow of cerebrospinal uid and present with symptoms of increased intracranial pressure.[13]
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Racemose neurocysticercosis Racemose neurocysticercosis refers to cysts in the subarachnoid space. These can occasionally grown into large lobulated masses causing pressure on surrounding structures.[14] Spinal neurocysticercosis Neurocysticercosis involving the spinal cord, most commonly presenting as back pain and radiculopathy.[15]
Ophthalmic cysticercosis
In some cases, cysticerci may be found in the globe, extraocular muscles, and subconjunctiva. Depending on the location, they may cause visual difculties that uctuate with eye position, retinal edema, hemorrhage, a decreased vision or even a visual loss.[9][10]
Subcutaneous cysticercosis
Subcutaneous cysts are in the form of rm, mobile nodules, occurring mainly on the trunk and extremities.[16] Subcutaneous nodules are sometimes painful.
Diagnosis
The traditional method of demonstrating tapeworm eggs in stool samples diagnoses only taeniasis, carriage of the tapeworm stage of the life cycle.[11] Only a small minority of patients with cysticercosis will harbor a tapeworm, rendering stool studies ineffective for diagnosis.[17] In CDCs immunoblot assay, cysticercosis-specic antibodies can react with structural glycoprotein antigens from the larval cysts of T. solium.[11] However this is mainly a research tool not widely available in clinical practice and nearly unobtainable in resource limited settings. The diagnosis of neurocysticercosis is mainly clinical, based on a compatible presentation of symptoms and ndings of imaging studies. Neuroimaging with CT or MRI is the most useful method of diagnosis.[10] CT scan shows both calcied and uncalcied cysts, as well as distinguishing active and inactive cysts. MRI is more sensitive in detection of intraventricular cysts.[10]
Ophthalmic cysticercosis
In ophthalmic disease surgical removal is necessary for cysts within the eye itself, while antihelminth drug with steroids alone might be sufcient to treat cysts outside globe.[10] Treatment recommendations for subcutaneous cysticercosis includes surgery, praziquantel and albendazole.[16]
Subcutaneous cysticercosis
In general, subcutaneous disease does not need specic therapy. Painful or bothersome cysts can be surgically excised.
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For example, 1. Massive chemotherapy of infected individuals, improving sanitation, and educating people are all major ways to discontinue the cycle at Step 1, in which eggs from human feces are transmitted to other humans and/or pigs. 2. Cooking of pork or freezing it and inspecting meat are effective means to cease the life cycle at Step 3. 3. The management of pigs by treating them or vaccinating them is another possibility to intervene Step 4 of the life cycle. 4. The separation of pigs from human faeces by conning them in enclosed piggeries. In Western European countries post World War 2 the pig industry developed rapidly and most pigs were housed. This was the main reason for pig cysticercosis largely being eliminated from the region. This of course is not a quick answer to the problem in developing countries.
Limitations
Even with the concurrent treatment of humans and pigs, complete elimination is hard to achieve. In one study conducted in 12 villages in Peru, both humans and porcine were treated with praziquantel and oxfendazole, with the coverage of more than 75% in humans and 90% in pigs [25] The result shows a decreased in prevalence and incidence in the intervention area; however the effect did not completely eliminate T. solium. The possible reason includes the incomplete coverage and re-infection.[26] Even though T. solium could be eliminated through mass treatment of human and porcine population, it is not sustainable.[23] Moreover, both tapeworm carriers of humans and pigs tend to spread the disease from endemic to non-endemic areas resulting in periodic outbreaks of cysticercosis or outbreaks in new areas.[27][28]
Limitations of vaccines
Even though vaccines have been successfully generated, the feasibility of its production and usage in rural free ranging pigs still remains a challenge. If a vaccine is to be injected, the burden of work and the cost of vaccine administration to pigs will remain high and unrealistic.[29] The incentives of using vaccines by pig owners will decrease if the vaccine administration to pigs takes time by injecting every single pig in their livestock. An oral vaccine is proposed to be more effective in this case as it can be easily delivered to the pigs with the food, though no one has ever achieved it yet.[29]
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pigs are consumed within the locality or sold at low prices to trafckers who take the uninspected pigs at urban areas for sale.[38] Due to these limitations, cysticercosis has not been eliminated in any endemic areas.
Epidemiology
The tapeworm that causes cysticercosis is endemic to many parts of the world including China, Southeast Asia, India, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America.[39] Some studies suggest that the prevalence of cysticercosis in Mexico is between 3.1 and 3.9 percent. Other studies have found the seroprevalence in areas of Guatemala, Bolivia, and Peru as high as 20 percent in humans, and 37 percent in pigs.[40] In Ethiopia, Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo around 10% of the population is infected, in Madagascar 16%. The frequency has decreased in developed countries owing to stricter meat inspection, better hygiene and better sanitary facilities. The distribution of cysticercosis coincides with the distribution of T. solium.[41] Cysticercosis is the most common cause of symptomatic epilepsy worldwide.[42] In Latin America, an estimated 75 million persons live in endemic areas and 400,000 people have symptomatic disease.[43] Cysticercosis is also found to be associated with Hispanic ethnicity, immigrant status, and exposure to areas of endemicity.[9] In the US, the disease is found in immigrants from Mexico, Central and South America. Current livestock for pigs in the U.S do not play a role in the transmission of Taenia solium, and thus cysticercosis in the U.S is an imported disease.[22] In the USA during 19902002, 221 cysticercosis deaths were identied. Mortality rates were highest for Latinos and men. The mean age at death was 40.5 years (range 288). Most patients, 84.6%, were foreign born, and 62% had emigrated from Mexico. The 33 US-born persons who died of cysticercosis represented 15% of all cysticercosis-related deaths. The cysticercosis mortality rate was highest in California, which accounted for 60% of all deaths.[44]
In popular culture
The rst patient on the television show House (in the pilot episode) suffered from cysticercosis. In the crossover of the series Grey's Anatomy (season 5, episode 15) and Private Practice (season 2), Archer Montgomery, brother of Addison Forbes Montgomery, suffered from neurocysticercosis. He was cured via the surgical removal of the cysts by his former brotherin-law Derek Shepherd.
External links
Neurocysticercosis (http://rad.usuhs.edu/medpix/kiosk_image.html?mode=&imid=49313&pt_id=13021#pic) MR and CT scans
References
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