[Cysticercosis and neurocysticercosis: epidemiological survey in North Togo].
An epidemiologic survey was carried out by a team of medical doctors working in the Kozah district of North Togo during April 1987. It was designed to evaluate the incidence of epilepsy and cysticercosis, taking a sample population of 5,264 subjects aged over 15 years old. 81.7% of the population feed on pigs which are allowed to roam freely in the vicinity of people's habitations. Cysticercosis (123 cases; incidence 23.3 cases per thousand) was diagnosed when one of the following three tests gave a positive result:--serum sample greater than or equal to 0.400 OD with ELISA test (101 cas),--identification of a cysticercosis cyst on anatomopathological examination of subcutaneous cysts (12 cases),--presence of typical calcification patterns revealed by cranial or muscle X-rays (21 cases in 18 patients). General epilepsy or partial motor fits were entirely clinically diagnosed (88 cases; 16 per thousand of population). Cysticercosis proved to be the cause of 29.5% epileptic sufferers, onset occurring after the age of 50 in 66% of these patients.
Institut d'Epidémiologie Neurologique et de Neurologie Tropicale, Faculté de Médecine, Limoges, France.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003551:Cysticercosis / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003710:Demography; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011159:Population Surveillance; D014037:Togo
Cysticercose et neurocysticercose: enquête épidémiologique dans le nord du Togo.