Infection with CYSTICERCUS, the larval form of the various tapeworms of the genus Taenia (usually T. solium in man). In humans they penetrate the intestinal wall and invade subcutaneous tissue, brain, eye, muscle, heart, liver, lung, and peritoneum. Brain involvement results in NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS.
    

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De taenia humana : dissertatio inauguralis medica ... / auctor Fridericus Piltz.

The morphology and pathogenicity of the bladder worms Cysticercus cellulosae and Cysticercus bovis / Jaroslaz Šlais ; [translation by Eva Kalinová].

Note sur un cas de cysticerque du sein / par Fr. Guermonprez.

Teniaty - lentochnye gelʹminty zhivotnykh i cheloveka i vyzyvaemye imi zabolevani︠︡ia / K.I. Abuladze.

Étude sur la ladrerie chez l'homme comparée à cette affection chez le porc / par Joseph Boyron.

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De taenia humana : dissertatio inauguralis medica ... / auctor Fridericus Piltz.

The morphology and pathogenicity of the bladder worms Cysticercus cellulosae and Cysticercus bovis / Jaroslaz Šlais ; [translation by Eva Kalinová].

Note sur un cas de cysticerque du sein / par Fr. Guermonprez.

Teniaty - lentochnye gelʹminty zhivotnykh i cheloveka i vyzyvaemye imi zabolevani︠︡ia / K.I. Abuladze.

Étude sur la ladrerie chez l'homme comparée à cette affection chez le porc / par Joseph Boyron.