Inflammation Caused by Praziquantel Treatment Depends on the Location of the Taenia solium Cysticercus in Porcine Neurocysticercosis

Carla Cangalaya; Mirko Zimic; Miguel Marzal; Armando E. González; Cristina Guerra-Giraldez; Siddhartha Mahanty; Theodore E. Nash; Hector H. García; Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004207

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Inflammation Caused by Praziquantel Treatment Depends on the Location of the Taenia solium Cysticercus in Porcine Neurocysticercosis

Carla Cangalaya ,

* E-mail: carla.cangalaya.l@upch.pe

Affiliation Laboratorio de Inmunopatología en Neurocisticercosis, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú
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Mirko Zimic,

Affiliations Laboratorio de Bioinformática y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú, Departamento de Ciencias Celulares y Moleculares, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú
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Miguel Marzal,

Affiliation Laboratorio de Inmunopatología en Neurocisticercosis, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú
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Armando E. González,

Affiliation Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú
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Cristina Guerra-Giraldez,

Affiliations Laboratorio de Inmunopatología en Neurocisticercosis, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú, Departamento de Ciencias Celulares y Moleculares, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú
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Siddhartha Mahanty,

Affiliations Laboratorio de Inmunopatología en Neurocisticercosis, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Theodore E. Nash,

Affiliations Laboratorio de Inmunopatología en Neurocisticercosis, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Hector H. García,

Affiliations Departamento de Ciencias Celulares y Moleculares, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú, Unidad de Cisticercosis, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurológicas, Lima, Perú
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Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru

¶Membership of the Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru is provided in the Acknowledgments.
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Inflammation Caused by Praziquantel Treatment Depends on the Location of the Taenia solium Cysticercus in Porcine Neurocysticercosis

Carla Cangalaya,
Mirko Zimic,
Miguel Marzal,
Armando E. González,
Cristina Guerra-Giraldez,
Siddhartha Mahanty,
Theodore E. Nash,
Hector H. García,
Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru

Published: December 11, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004207

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