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Estimated Numbers of Persons Infected with Neurocysticercosis or Epilepsy due to Neurocysticercosis by Region.
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posted on 2013-02-20, 04:29 authored by Christina M. Coyle, Siddhartha Mahanty, Joseph R. Zunt, Mitchell T. Wallin, Paul T. Cantey, A. Clinton White Jr., Seth E. O'Neal, Jose A. Serpa, Paul M. Southern, Patricia Wilkins, Anne E. McCarthy, Elizabeth S. Higgs, Theodore E. Nasha
See text for methods used to derive these estimates.
bAssumes that 10% of those seropositive to T. solium have epilepsy. (Extraction of data from manuscripts summarized in references [7], [11], [31]). Seizure rates in populations seropositive to T. solium were greater than in seronegative populations by approximately 9.4% (range 1.7–31.3%). Therefore, we assumed 10% of seizures were attributable to NCC in Chinese seropositive populations.
cAssuming 1/3 of the SSA population of 560 million at risk.
