Tapeworm cysts in the brain: can we prevent it happening?
Marshall Lightowlers
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Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences
The University of Melbourne
250 Princes Highway
Werribee, Vic. 3030, Australia
Email: marshall@unimelb.edu.au
Microbiology Australia 37(1) 25-26 https://doi.org/10.1071/MA16010
Published: 11 February 2016
Abstract
Imagine the consternation; you are a member of an orthodox Jewish family and you and another family member are diagnosed with larvae of a pork tapeworm in your brain. You have recurrent seizures as a result. Ridiculous? Not for members of a Jewish community in New York where a Mexican domestic worker harbouring a Taenia solium tapeworm had apparently contaminated the family's food with eggs from her tapeworm1.
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