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  • Bustos Palomino, Javier Arturo; García Lescano, Héctor Hugo; Del-Brutto, Oscar-H. (Taylor and Francis, 2016)
    INTRODUCTION: Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is a leading causes of secondary epilepsy worldwide. There is increasing evidence on the epileptogenic role of NCC, and the presence of edema, calcified scars, gliosis and hippocampal ...
  • Belter, Christopher W.; Garcia Funegra, Patricia Jannet; Livinski, Alicia A.; León-Velarde, Fabiola; Weymouth, Kristen H.; Glass, Roger I. (Public Library of Science, 2019)
    Objective: In Peru, the past three decades have witnessed impressive growth in biomedical research catalyzed from a single research university and its investigators who secured international partnerships and funding. We ...
  • Leon-Janampa, Nancy; Liendo, Ruddy; Gilman, Robert Hugh; Padilla, Carlos; García Lescano, Héctor Hugo; Gonzales, Armando; Sheen Cortavarria, Patricia; Pajuelo Travezaño, Monica Jhenny; Zimic-Peralta, Mirko Juan; Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru (Elsevier, 2019)
    Porcine cysticercosis is an endemic parasitic disease caused by infection with Taenia solium that is found predominantly in developing countries. In order to aid in the development of simple diagnostic approaches, ...
  • Lescano Guevara, Andres Guillermo; Pray, I.W.; Gonzalez Zariquiey, Armando Emiliano; Gilman, Robert Hugh; Tsang, V.C.W.; Gamboa Morán, Ricardo; Guezala, M.C.; Aybar, V.; Rodriguez, S.; Moulton, L.H.; Leontsini, E.; Gonzalvez, G.; O'Neal, Seth E.; García Lescano, Héctor Hugo (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2019)
    The pork tapeworm, Taenia solium, is among the leading causes of preventable epilepsy in the world and is common in rural areas of developing countries where sanitation is limited and pigs have access to human feces. Prior ...
  • Nash, T.E.; Mahanty, S.; García Lescano, Héctor Hugo (Taylor and Francis, 2011)
    The cystic larvae of Taenia solium commonly infect the human nervous system, resulting in neurocysticercosis, a major contributor to seizure disorders in most of the world. Inflammation around the parasites is a hallmark ...
  • Guzman, Carolina; García Lescano, Héctor Hugo; Cysticercosis working Grp Peru (Dove Medical Press, 2021)
    Neurocysticercosis (NCC) causes significant neurological morbidity around the world, and is the most common preventable factor for epilepsy in adults. It is endemic in most developing countries, and also diagnosed with ...
  • White, A. Clinton; Coyle, Christina M.; Rajshekhar, Vedantam; Singh, Gagandeep; Hauser, W. Allen; Mohanty, Aaron; García Lescano, Héctor Hugo; Nash, Theodore E. (Oxford University Press, 2018)
    Guidelines for the clinical management of patients with neurocysticercosis (NCC) were prepared by a panel of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene ...
  • Moro Pedro L.; Guevara A.; Verastegui Pimentel, Manuela Renee; Gilman, Robert Hugh; Poma H.; Tapia B.; Tsang V.C.; García Lescano, Héctor Hugo; Pacheco R.; Lapel C. (American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1994)
    A serosurvey for human hydatidosis and cysticercosis was performed in different regions of Peru. Those regions included a known endemic area for cystic hydatid disease, a cooperative in the central Peruvian Andes near the ...
  • García Lescano, Héctor Hugo; O'Neal, Seth E.; Gilman, Robert Hugh (Massachusetts Medical Society, 2016)
    Garcia et al. (June 16 issue) conclude that the transmission of taeniasis and cysticercosis was interrupted in a region in which these diseases are endemic owing to mass drug administration in humans and pigs. We are not ...
  • Fernandez, Lauralee; Gamboa Morán, Ricardo; Vilchez Barreto, Percy Mcquen; Pray, Ian; Beam, Michelle; Garvey, Brian; Spencer, Angela; Atto, Ruth; Muro Ecca, Claudio Alberto; Moyano, Luz Maria; García Lescano, Héctor Hugo; O'Neal, Seth E.; Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2019)
    Reintroduction of Taenia solium into a region in Peru where it had been eliminated prompted evaluation of the possibility of reintroduction from an urban reservoir of taeniasis. In a cross-sectional study of an adjacent ...
  • Gomez-Puerta, Lucho; Vargas-Calla, Ana; Castillo Berrios, Yesenia; Lopez-Urbina, Maria Teresa; Dorny, Pierre; García Lescano, Héctor Hugo; Gonzalez Zariquiey, Armando Emiliano; O'Neal, Seth E. (BioMed Central, 2019)
    BACKGROUND: Taenia solium is an important zoonotic parasite that infects humans as definitive host (taeniasis) and pigs as intermediate host (cysticercosis). Serological diagnosis of porcine cysticercosis is limited to ...
  • Gomez-Puerta, L.A.; García Lescano, Héctor Hugo; Gonzalez Zariquiey, Armando Emiliano; Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru (Elsevier, 2018)
    Beetles are intermediate hosts for human and animal parasites, and several beetle species have been shown to carry Taenia eggs. An experimental porcine cysticercosis infection model was developed using beetles (Ammophorus ...
  • García Lescano, Héctor Hugo; O'Neal, Seth E.; Noh, John; Handali, Sukwan; Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru (American Society for Microbiology, 2018)
    Neurocysticercosis accounts for approximately 30% of all epilepsy cases in most developing countries. The immunodiagnosis of cysticercosis is complex and strongly influenced by the course of infection, the disease burden, ...
  • Meneses, J. P.; Salas, C.; Saavedra Pastor, Herbert; Esteban, D.; García Lescano, Héctor Hugo (Wiley, 2016)
    Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is the infectionof the central nervous system by cysts(larvae) of Taenia solium, a relevant pub-lic health issue in low-income countriesand nowadays found in most of theworld. NCC cysts most commonly ...
  • García Lescano, Héctor Hugo; Castillo Berrios, Yesenia; Gonzales, Isidro; Bustos Palomino, Javier Arturo; Saavedra Pastor, Herbert; Jacob, Louis; Del Brutto, Oscar H.; Wilkins, Patricia P.; Gonzalez Zariquiey, Armando Emiliano; Gilman, Robert Hugh; Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru (Wiley, 2018)
    OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the diagnostic performance of two commercially available ELISA kits, Novalisa® and Ridascreen® , for the detection of antibodies to Taenia solium, compared to serological diagnosis of neurocysticercosis ...
  • Lightowlers, M. W.; García Lescano, Héctor Hugo; Gauci, C. G.; Donadeu, M.; Abela-Ridder, B. (Wiley, 2015)
    There is an increasing interest in reducing the incidence of human neurocysticercosis, caused by infection with the larval stage of Taenia solium. Several intervention trials are currently assessing various options for ...
  • Lupi, Omar; Downing, Christopher; Lee, Michael; Bravo Puccio, Francisco Gerardo; Giglio, Patricia; Woc-Colburn, Laila; Tyring, Stephen K. (Elsevier, 2015)
    In the 21st century, despite increased international travel for vacation, work, and medical missions and immigration into the United States, there is little published in the dermatology literature regarding the cutaneous ...
  • Nash, Theodore E.; Mahanty, Siddhartha; García Lescano, Héctor Hugo (Public Library of Science, 2013)
    Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is the most common cause of adult-acquired epilepsy worldwide and one the most frequent parasitic infections associated with chronic morbidity in the United States…
  • Bustos Palomino, Javier Arturo; Gonzales, Isidro; Saavedra Pastor, Herbert; Handali, Sukwan; García Lescano, Héctor Hugo; Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru (Elsevier, 2021)
    Neurocysticercosis is endemic in most of the world and in endemic areas it accounts for approximately 30% of cases of epilepsy. Appropriate diagnosis and management of neurocysticercosis requires understanding the diverse ...
  • García Lescano, Héctor Hugo; Verastegui Pimentel, Manuela Renee; Arroyo Hurtado, Gianfranco; Bustos Palomino, Javier Arturo; Gilman, Robert Hugh; for The Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru (Frontiers, 2022)
    Neurocysticercosis (NCC), defined as an infection of the central nervous system (CNS) by the cystic larval stage of the pork tapeworm Taenia solium, remains a major challenge in public health mainly due to associated ...

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