Taenia solium taeniasis/cysticercosis is a zoonotic infection caused by T.soilum. Human becomes infected when ingests viable cysts in pork or viable eggs of the parasite.
However, developing clinical signs could be the matter of the physiology of the host which can be overcome by the parasite mechanisms of defence and adaptation. This is now the foundation of my question.
Dear Misheck Mulilo,
You question need to be reformulated given the ingestion of larval stages (cysticercus) in undercooked pork meat cause taeniasis and not cysticercosis. If your idea was to know the minimum number of eggs that need to ingested to result in neurocysticercosis, I consider it is very difficult to determinate. Theorically, a single ingested egg can originate a cyst in the nervous system.
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