About the Authors

Gianfranco Arroyo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Center for Global Health, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, Cysticercosis Unit, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurologicas, Lima, Peru

Luz Toribio

Contributed equally to this work with: Luz Toribio, Ana Vargas-Calla

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

luz.toribio.salazar@upch.pe

Affiliation Center for Global Health, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

Ana Vargas-Calla

Contributed equally to this work with: Luz Toribio, Ana Vargas-Calla

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru

Juan F. Calcina

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru

Edson Bernal

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Laboratory Research-LID, Faculty of Sciences and Philosophy, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

Nancy Chile

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Laboratory Research-LID, Faculty of Sciences and Philosophy, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

Miguel Zambrano

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru

Luis A. Gomez-Puerta

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Center for Global Health, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru

Juan Chacaltana

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Imaging Diagnosis, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurologicas de Lima, Lima, Peru

Miguel Marzal

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medical Technology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

Javier A. Bustos

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Center for Global Health, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, Cysticercosis Unit, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurologicas, Lima, Peru

Manuela R. Verastegui

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Laboratory Research-LID, Faculty of Sciences and Philosophy, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

Robert H. Gilman

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Seth E. O’Neal

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, Oregon Health & Sciences University-Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Armando E. Gonzalez

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru

Hector H. Garcia

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Global Health, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, Cysticercosis Unit, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurologicas, Lima, Peru

for The Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru

Membership of the Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru is provided in the Acknowledgments section

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.