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What does cysticercosis mean?

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Noun
  1. (medicine) A parasitic infestation of the voluntary muscles, lungs, central nervous system and other organs, caused by the ingestion of eggs of the tapeworm Taenia solium.
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Findings on cysticercosis immunoblot serology were strongly positive.
Brain parenchymal, subarachnoid racemose, and intraventricular cysticercosis in an Indian man.
These features were highly suggestive of an Echinococcus cyst, with differential diagnosis of cysticercosis, cystic neoplasm such as schwannoma, and arachnoid cyst.
Serologic results for toxocariasis, schistosomiasis, trichinosis, distomatosis, cysticercosis, and microfilaremia were negative.
Examples include filariasis, malaria, trypanosomiasis, cysticercosis, schistosomiasis, and intestinal parasites.
A serology for amoeba and cysticercosis was done that suggested past exposure to Entamoeba histolytica.

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