**2.3 Methods**

*Overview on Echinococcosis*

ND

Intraocular

ND

cysticercosis

23.3 (10/43)

ND

7.69 (*n* = 31)/7.69

(*n* = 31)

ND

ND

ND

**32**

**Author**

[50] [51] [71] [42] [52] [53] [41] [54] [55] [56] [57]

Togo, the Kozah

district of North

Togo

*2/43\* 4.65, foot note =direct microscopy.*

*4/43\*\* 9.30, foot note = Ritchie formol ether method.*

*1/43\*\*\* 2.33,foot note= Worm expulsion.*

**Table 2.**

*Selected prevalence of human cysticersosis and epilepsy in west African countries.*

Togo, Tone

Mauritania

Neurologist

Liberia

Senegal Liberia

Senegal Pikine,

Questionnaire, physician,

4500 7682 4436 2733 236 9155 for epi and

1343 for cyst

(*n* = 5264) 2.4%

5264

(*n* = 88) 16/1000

ND

23.3% (*n* = 123)

ND

8.3/per 1000 (123) 28.0per 1000

43.0 per 1000, CB

34.7% (*n* = 82), HB

18.6%/1000, GB

ND

38/1000

ND

ND

ND

ND

ND

ND

ND

(*n* = 64) 14.2/1000

electroencephalography

Dakar

Senegal Soutou

(Ag-ELISA) and (EITB),CT scan

403

Nigeria Osun

Surgery, Occular Ultrasound

Nigeria

Questionnaire

18,951

5.3/1000

101, CB

Nigeria, Edo State,

**Country/location**

**Diagnosis** Surgeon, histopathological

**Total**

**Epilepsy (***n***)**

**Neurocysticercosis**

**Cysticercosis** Cysticercosis

ND

in the anterior

chamber

**Taeniasis**

A systematic literature search was done on studies carried out on cysticercosis in humans and pigs, seroprevalence of cysticercosis in humans and pigs, neurocysticercosis/taeniasis, risk factors for transmission of cysticercosis and epilepsy in West Africa published between 1980 and 2019. This search focused on the articles in which data was obtained using the following techniques and protocols: (1) enzymelinked immunoelectrotransfer blot (EITB), (2) enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (B158/B60 Ag-ELISA or HP10 Ag-ELISA), (3) copro-antigen ELISA and real-time polymerase chain reaction assay (copro-PCR). Language restriction was applied, the considered languages were English and French. The selected databases for this study were: PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/), Google scholar and others. The search was performed from May 22 to August 22, 2019.
