Neurocysticercosis in Latin America: Current epidemiological situation based on official statistics from four countries

• Roberto Rodríguez-Rivas,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía Manuel Velasco Suarez, Ciudad de México, México

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• Ana Flisser,

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

  Affiliation Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México

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• Luiz Fernando Norcia,

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

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Psychology and Psychiatry, Botucatu Medical School. UNESP – Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, Brazil

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• Pedro Tadao Hamamoto Filho,

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

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Psychology and Psychiatry, Botucatu Medical School. UNESP – Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, Brazil

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• D. Katterine Bonilla-Aldana,

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

  Affiliation Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia

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• Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales,

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

  Affiliations Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia, Master of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Perú

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• Arturo Carpio,

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

  Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador

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• Matthew L. Romo,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health, City University of New York, New York, United States of America

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• Agnès Fleury

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: afleury@iibiomedicas.unam.mx

  Affiliations Departamento de Medicina Genómica y Toxicología Ambiental, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México, Clínica de Neurocisticercosis, Instituto Nacional de Neurología Y Neurocirugía Manuel Velasco Suarez, Ciudad de México, México

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8930-2202

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