**5. Acknowledgment**

We like to express our gratitude to those veterinarian doctors working in this field particularly: Professors Rosina "Tammi" Krecek, Albert Lee Willingham III, Linda Cowan, Samson Mukaratiwua and other members of our Cysticercosis Working Group for Eastern and Southern Africa (CWGESA) for their dedications and commitment.

Special thanks to Professor Helen Carabin from Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology College of Public Health University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center for her invaluable enthusiasm, persistence, and leadership in our research team.

We want to thanks to all radiologists and radiographers from Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital and Inkhosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital in South Africa for their contribution to this study.

Many thanks are due to The Cuban Ministry of Health, The Institute of Tropical Medicine "Pedro Kouri", authorities of Faculty of Health Sciences, Directorate: Research Development from the Walter Sisulu University and some of mine colleagues from Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital for their unconditional support.

Special mention is made of Mrs Noluntu Funani. Research Coordinator at the Office of President. South Africa Medical Research Council, who gave me a valuable help.

We also acknowledge financial support from, Directorate of Research Development from Walter Sisulu University in South Africa, University of Oklahoma, and South African Medical Research Council.The founder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of this chapter.

I sincerely thank to INTECH open access publisher for supporting this chapter and to my beautiful friends Ms Dragana Manestar and Natalia Reinic for their kind attention and nice support.

My sweet wife Lourdes de Fátima was so patient with my late nights, and I want to thank her for her faithful support in writing this book. Words cannot express my gratitude to Lourdes for her advices, encouragement, and assistance in polishing this chapter.

Finally, I wish to declare my eternal, deepest love and gratitude to Lorna María Foyaca García, Thabo Humberto Jorge Foyaca Ibañez and Fátima Susana Adolfina Foyaca Ibañez, because without their love and unconditional support this chapter would not have been written.
