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Neurocysticercosis is the most common cause of seizures in South America. Though it is acquired through infection from the pork tape worm Tenia solium(Option A), what actually leads to development of neurocyticercosis is consumption of feces of a human infected by the parasite (through contaminated food or water, or poor hygiene). The mature worm lives in the jejunum of infected humans where it lays eggs. These eggs are passed with stool and are ingested by pigs, the intermediate host. Inside the pig, they hatch and migrate to different tissues including skeletal muscle. Undercooked pork meat infected with cysticerci is then eaten by humans, the definitive host, leading to the development of an adult worm in the jejunum. However, if humans consume the eggs or larvae, it prevents them from completing their life cycle in the intermediate host and hatch entering the blood stream, never reaching the intestine. They can then disseminate to many areas of the body including skeletal muscle, eyes, heart, spinal chord and brain. They become encapsulated and are not able to mature into the adult worm. However, their presence causes an inflammatory reaction which can lead to many symptoms depending of the organ, including seizures.
Tenia saginata (Option B) is acquired from consumption of undercooked beef, and is not associated with cysticerci.
Exposure to acid fast bacilli as a child (Option D) would suggest tuberculosis. While TB can affect the CNS, it would not produce the clinical and radiologic findings in this patient.
Prion disease (Option E) would not cause the clinical picture presented on the case