High Prevalence of Asymptomatic Neurocysticercosis in an Endemic Rural Community in Peru

• Luz M. Moyano ,

  * E-mail: luzmariamoyano@gmail.com

  Affiliations Cysticercosis Elimination Program and Center for Global Heath - Tumbes, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Tumbes, Peru, UMR 1094 Inserm Neuroépidémiologie Tropicale (NET), Institut d'Epidémiologie et de Neurologie Tropicale (IENT), Faculté de Médecine de l'Université de Limoges, Limoges, France, Epidemiology Unit, Hospital Regional II-2 Tumbes, Tumbes, Peru

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5878-5782

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• Seth E. O’Neal,

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

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• Viterbo Ayvar,

  Affiliation Cysticercosis Elimination Program and Center for Global Heath - Tumbes, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Tumbes, Peru

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• Guillermo Gonzalvez,

  Affiliation Cysticercosis Elimination Program and Center for Global Heath - Tumbes, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Tumbes, Peru

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• Ricardo Gamboa,

  Affiliations Cysticercosis Elimination Program and Center for Global Heath - Tumbes, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Tumbes, Peru, Epidemiology Unit, Hospital Regional II-2 Tumbes, Tumbes, Peru

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• Percy Vilchez,

  Affiliations Cysticercosis Elimination Program and Center for Global Heath - Tumbes, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Tumbes, Peru, Epidemiology Unit, Hospital Regional II-2 Tumbes, Tumbes, Peru

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• Silvia Rodriguez,

  Affiliation Instituto de Ciencias Neurológicas, Lima, Peru

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• Joe Reistetter,

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

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• Victor C. W. Tsang,

  Affiliation Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Robert H. Gilman,

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

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• Armando E. Gonzalez,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Sciences, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

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• Hector H. Garcia,

  Affiliations Cysticercosis Elimination Program and Center for Global Heath - Tumbes, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Tumbes, Peru, Instituto de Ciencias Neurológicas, Lima, Peru, Department of Microbiology, School of Sciences, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

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• The Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru

  ¶Membership of The Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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