Cellular and molecular basis associated with metacestode proliferation in subarachnoid neurocysticercosis

Abstract

Taenia solium is a cestode parasite with a complex life cycle that includes two mammalian hosts: pigs and humans. Humans are the only definitive host, in whose small intestine develops and lives the adult form of the parasite; this infection is known as taeniasis and makes humans the most important reservoir and disseminator of the parasite...