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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1];Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Ahmed Younes M.B.B.CH [2]

Overview

Poor sanitary habits, contact with pigs and living in an endemic area are the main risk factors for having cysticercosis.

Cysticercosis risk factors

Statistically proven risk factors are:[1]

  1. Poor defaecating habits
  2. Inability to identify pork infected with cysticercosis
  3. History of passing Taenia proglottides
  4. History of raising pigs
  5. Feeding human faeces to pigs
  6. Using pigs barn as a toilet
  7. Using dipping method for washing hands [2]

References

  1. Kuwajima K, Nitta K, Sugai S (1975). "Electrophoretic investigations of the acid conformational change of alpha-lactalbumin". J. Biochem. 78 (1): 205–11. PMID 376.
  2. Michiels JJ, van Joost T, Vuzevski VD (1989). "Idiopathic erythermalgia: a congenital disorder". J. Am. Acad. Dermatol. 21 (5 Pt 2): 1128–30. PMID 2808845.


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