Abstract
Advances in the field of neurocysticercosis continue to shape our understanding of
the disease and our efforts to control it. Several attempts have been made to eradicate
the disease with active interventions such as changing domestic pig-raising practices,
mass chemotherapy of porcine cysticercosis and taeniasis, selective detection and
treatment of taeniasis, and community health education. Moreover, ongoing progress
in the diagnosis of taeniasis and the development of a porcine vaccine against cysticercosis
in Australia, Mexico and Peru has yielded at least one effective vaccine that is currently
available. Thus far, however, attempted interventions have only been successful in
temporarily disrupting transmission of the disease. Controlled data on the efficacy
and acceptability of the different interventions is urgently needed to provide a base-line
schematic for intervention which could later be tailored to each particular endemic
scenario.
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