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  • Enhanced steroid dosing reduces seizures during antiparasitic treatment for cysticercosis and early after 
    García Lescano, Héctor Hugo; Gonzales, Isidro; Lescano Guevara, Andres Guillermo; Bustos Palomino, Javier Arturo; Pretell, E.Javier; Saavedra Pastor, Herbert; Nash, Theodore E.; The Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru (Wiley, 2014)
    Objective: Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is a major cause of seizures and epilepsy in endemic countries. Antiparasitic treatment of brain cysts leads to seizures due to the host's inflammatory reaction, requiring concomitant ...
  • Pulmonary Manifestations of Parasitic Diseases in Children 
    Xu, Teena Huan; Lovaton, Nair; Serpa, Jose; Ochoa Woodell, Theresa Jean (Elsevier, 2020)
    Parasites can cause respiratory symptoms through focal or diffuse lung involvement, depending on the location of the parasite and the host's immune response. Pulmonary involvement can be a major feature of some parasitic ...
  • Seasonal patterns in risk factors for Taenia solium transmission: A GPS tracking study of pigs and open human defecation in northern Peru 
    Pray, Ian W.; Muro Ecca, Claudio Alberto; Gamboa Morán, Ricardo; Vilchez Barreto, Percy Mcquen; Wakeland, Wayne; Pan, William; Lambert, William E.; García Lescano, Héctor Hugo; O'Neal, Seth E. (BioMed Central, 2019)
    BACKGROUND: Taenia solium (cysticercosis) is a parasitic cestode that is endemic in rural populations where open defecation is common and free-roaming pigs have access to human feces. The purpose of this study was to ...

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