Cysticercosis and epilepsy in the city of Tone, Togo.

An epidemiology study was conducted in Tone, a city in the very north of To go from November 1 to 25, 1995. The prevalence of epilepsy was studied in 9 , 155 subjects and seroprevalence of cysticercosis in 1,343. This was a rep resentative sample of this region with 194, 000 inhabitants. The prevalence of epilepsy was 18.6 per 1 000 inhabitants. A causal relationship was foun d between cysticercosis and epilepsy. The prevalenced of cysticercosis was 38 per 1 000 persons in the general population and 135.29 per 1 000 epilept ic patients. The difference was highly statistically significant (X-2=74. 1 7, p<10(-6)).