Humans that do not eat pork can get #cysticercosis. Ingestion of contaminated pork ➡️adult intestinal tapeworm – not cysticercosis. Cysticercosis is common in many developing countries. Ingested eggs hatch in stomach & carried to tissues ➡️larvae encyst & reach 1 cm w/in few mo
#Cysticercosis is infection w/ larval stages of the human pork tapeworm Taenia solium. Humans acquire cysticercosis after ingesting eggs of T. solium in material contaminated with feces originating in human tapeworm carriers.
+Single fluid-filled cystic lesion in sub-arachnoid space. Visualization of a fluid filled cyst with a scolex inside is diagnostic of #cysticercosis without further diagnostic or laboratory testing.
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"It can only be speculated, but given our patient’s predilection for undercooked pork and benign exposure history, we favor that his #cysticercosis was transmitted via autoinfection after improper handwashing after he had contracted taeniasis himself from his eating habits."
