A clinical review for 45 cases of human cysticercosis developed in subcutaneous soft tissue was made during past 9 years and 5 months from 1957 to May 1966. Following results were obtained.
1. the percentage ratio of cysticercosis to the total number of out-patients in this period was .2% and to all the cases complaining of benign soft tissue nodules, 4.2%.
2. This study showed that males appear to be more often affected than females, the incidence being 33 and 12 cases with the sex incidence of 2.7:1.
3. Regarding age distribution, age varied between 11 and 52 years of age, it appears that adults between 20 and 50 years are most often affect, in this age group, the infection rate was 91.1%.
4. Epidemiologically, most of the 45 patients with human cysticercosis studied were from reral areas, or had at some time lived in reral areas. Similar observation have been made in other studies and this distribution is generally accepted as a pattern of the disease.
5. Stool examination was done in 26 cases of 45 cases cysticercosis whose stools revealed Taenia eggs in 7.7%, Proglottides in 23.1%. This represents a T. solium infection rate of 30.8 in this series.
6. We found that the blood eosinophile count was above 3%, average value 8.3% and in one as high as 20.3%.
7. There were probably 4 cases (8.9%) of cerebral cysticercosis.
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