UPDATE OF THE STUDY OF LEADING NEUROPARASITIC DISEASES IN UKRAINE

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11603/1681-2727.2023.4.14253

Keywords:

helminthiasis, protozoan diseases, toxoplasmosis, ascariasis, neurocysticercosis, prevention

Abstract

SUMMARY. Information about the prevalence of the most frequent helminth infections with a tendency to damage the brain. On the example of a clinical case of neurocysticercosis, the specificity of the neurological manifestation of human parasitic diseases is described.

Author Biographies

N. O. Nekrasova, Kharkiv National Medical University

MD, Professor of the Department of Neurology; Kharkiv National Medical University

Y. O. Smalko, Kharkiv National Medical University

student of Kharkiv National Medical University

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2023-11-24

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Nekrasova, N. O., & Smalko, Y. O. (2023). UPDATE OF THE STUDY OF LEADING NEUROPARASITIC DISEASES IN UKRAINE. Infectious Diseases – Infektsiyni Khvoroby, (4), 80–88. https://doi.org/10.11603/1681-2727.2023.4.14253

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No. 4 (2023)

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Brief reports

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