An Unusual Case of Coenuriasis with Bilateral Cerebral Cysts

Abstract

Although Coenuriasis in cattle is referred to in textbooks, it is less common than in sheep, and is possibly not considered in the differential diagnosis of nervous disorders of cattle in most areas of the United Kingdom. Coenuriasis is the disease caused by invasion of the brain and occasionally the spinal cord by the cystic larval stage of taenia multiceps, a tapeworm of the dog and fox. The localised space-occupying lesion of the CNS usually results in death of the host unless treated surgically (THOMAS, I. 1989-90; 1991).