• Pathog Glob Health · May 2012

    Case Reports

    Neurocysticercosis in a 2-year-old boy infected at home.

    • Oscar H Del Brutto.
    • Hospital-Clinica Kennedy, Guayaquil, Ecuador. oscardelbrutto@hotmail.com
    • Pathog Glob Health. 2012 May 1; 106 (2): 122-3.

    AbstractA 2-year-old boy presented with seizures and two parenchymal brain ring-enhancing lesions. Diagnosis of neurocysticercosis was confirmed by positive serology and response to albendazole therapy. The patients's mother was a Taenia solium carrier, who had most likely infected the child through the fecal-oral route. Household contacts should always be investigated in children with neurocysticercosis. Proper identification and treatment of Taenia solium carriers will reduce the risk of further spread of the disease.

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