Estimated Numbers of Persons Infected with Neurocysticercosis or Epilepsy due to Neurocysticercosis by Region.

aSee text for methods used to derive these estimates.bAssumes that 10% of those seropositive to T. solium have epilepsy. (Extraction of data from manuscripts summarized in references [7], [11], [31]). Seizure rates in populations seropositive to T. solium were greater than in seronegative populations by approximately 9.4% (range 1.7–31.3%). Therefore, we assumed 10% of seizures were attributable to NCC in Chinese seropositive populations.cAssuming 1/3 of the SSA population of 560 million at risk.