Cysticercosis. Case Report

Abstract

Human taeniasis/cysticercosis is a zoonotic disease caused by Taenia solium, declared by WHO as one of the potentially eradicable tropical diseases aecting the poorest people with unfavorable environmental conditions. In our country, in Honduras Dra. Rina Girard Kaminsky in 1991 found infection rates of 2-7 / 1000 in Hospital Escuela, 10/1000 in the south and 0-6 / 1000 in the departments of Cortes and Atlántida. The transmission is via a pig-human circle; in which the pig carries the cystic larvae in the flesh (cysticercosis) and human adult taenia (taeniasis).

Cysticercosis is the infection that can be asymptomatic or symptomatic: diarrhea, abdominal pain, migration of proglottids and cysticerci to central nervous system. The diagnosis is based on, clinical manifestations, demonstration of eggs or cysts, ELISA immunoassays: immunoelectrophoresis, computerized axial tomography and nuclear magnetic resonance. Pharmacological treatment is Praziquantel and Albendazole at doses of 10-20 mg/kg/day dose, and neurocysticercosis 10 days of treatment which should be initiated once seizures and intracranial hypertension are controlled.

We present a case of Teniasis in an 8-month-old infant exclusively fed with breast milk. The objective of the present study is to recognize its appearance at any age, including those less than 1 year of age, in addition to remembering that it is eradicable and that complications can be prevented.