About the Authors

Iskra Tuero

Current address: Vaccine Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollo, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú

Sandra Palma

Affiliation Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollo, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú

Franco Cabeza

Affiliation Asociación Benéfica PRISMA, Lima, Perú

Sarah Saleemi

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

Silvia Rodriguez

Affiliation Unidad de Cisticercosis, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurológicas, Lima, Perú

Isidro Gonzales

Affiliation Unidad de Cisticercosis, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurológicas, Lima, Perú

Holger Mayta

Affiliation Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollo, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú

Siddhartha Mahanty

smahanty@niaid.nih.gov

Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Hector H. Garcia

Affiliations Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollo, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú, Unidad de Cisticercosis, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurológicas, Lima, Perú

Robert H. Gilman

Affiliations Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollo, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú, Asociación Benéfica PRISMA, Lima, Perú, Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Cysticercosis Working Group in Perú

Membership of the Cysticercosis Working Group in Perú is provided in the Discussion section.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IT FC SR IG HHG RHG. Performed the experiments: IT SP. Analyzed the data: IT SP SM HHG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RHG HHG. Wrote the paper: IT SM HM SS HHG RHG.