title: Assessing the burden of human cysticercosis in Vietnam.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the occurrence of cysticercosis in patients living in rural areas of Northern Vietnam presenting clinical signs of neurocysticercosis.
  
  
  METHODS
  Serological antigen detection, reflecting current infection with viable larval stages of Taenia solium, was used to estimate the prevalence of active cysticercosis in this patient population.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The seroprevalence in epileptic patient population was <10%. However, antigen detection cannot detect dead cysticerci, which may also cause clinical signs. Therefore, the seroprevalence figures shown here may underestimate the role of neurocysticercosis as a causal agent of epilepsy and headaches in this population.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Human and porcine cysticercosis remain public and veterinary public health problems in Northern Vietnam and probably in other parts of the country.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology, Hanoi, Vietnam.
authors.forename: Dung Do
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Trung
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Praet
authors.forename: Thach Dang Thi
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Cam
authors.forename: Binh Vu Thi
authors.initials: BV
authors.lastname: Lam
authors.forename: Hung Nguyen
authors.initials: HN
authors.lastname: Manh
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gabriël
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dorny
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003551:Cysticercosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D004814:Epidermal Cyst / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology; D006261:Headache / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology; D020019:Neurocysticercosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D012424:Rural Population; D016036:Seroepidemiologic Studies; D012876:Skin Diseases, Parasitic / Q000453:epidemiology; D014744:Vietnam / Q000453:epidemiology; D013552:Swine; D000818:Animals