Report of three imported cases of neurocysticercosis in Guadeloupe

BACKGROUND: Neurocysticercosis is endemic in most countries of Central and South America but has rarely been described in the French West Indies. We aimed to better understand the clinical and radiological presentation of our cases. CASE PRESENTATION: We report three cases of neurocysticercosis in p...

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Autores principales: Blaizot, R., Melot, B., Schepers, K., Nicolas, M., Gaumond, S., Poullain, P., Belaye, L., Lannuzel, A., Hoen, B.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5282648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28143423
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-016-2169-8
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author Blaizot, R.
Melot, B.
Schepers, K.
Nicolas, M.
Gaumond, S.
Poullain, P.
Belaye, L.
Lannuzel, A.
Hoen, B.
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Melot, B.
Schepers, K.
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Gaumond, S.
Poullain, P.
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description BACKGROUND: Neurocysticercosis is endemic in most countries of Central and South America but has rarely been described in the French West Indies. We aimed to better understand the clinical and radiological presentation of our cases. CASE PRESENTATION: We report three cases of neurocysticercosis in patients living in Guadeloupe, with different clinical and radiological presentations. CONCLUSION: Given the eventuality of autochtonous transmission, the diagnosis should be considered in all patients living in Guadeloupe presenting with seizures. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12879-016-2169-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-52826482017-02-03 Report of three imported cases of neurocysticercosis in Guadeloupe Blaizot, R. Melot, B. Schepers, K. Nicolas, M. Gaumond, S. Poullain, P. Belaye, L. Lannuzel, A. Hoen, B. BMC Infect Dis Case Report BACKGROUND: Neurocysticercosis is endemic in most countries of Central and South America but has rarely been described in the French West Indies. We aimed to better understand the clinical and radiological presentation of our cases. CASE PRESENTATION: We report three cases of neurocysticercosis in patients living in Guadeloupe, with different clinical and radiological presentations. CONCLUSION: Given the eventuality of autochtonous transmission, the diagnosis should be considered in all patients living in Guadeloupe presenting with seizures. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12879-016-2169-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2017-01-31 /pmc/articles/PMC5282648/ /pubmed/28143423 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-016-2169-8 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Hoen, B.
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