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Antiparasitic agents against Taenia solium cysticercosis have been in use since 1979, although its use has been questioned on the basis that cysts would die naturally and thus treatment-induced inflammation is unnecessary. In addition, isolated [...]texto impreso
Del Brutto, Oscar H. ; Salgado, Perla ; Lama, Julio ; Del Brutto, Victor J. ; Campos, Xavier ; Zambrano, Mauricio ; Garcia, Hector H. | American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 2020-06-10T18:11:34ZCalcified neurocysticercosis has been associated with hippocampal atrophy in patients with refractory epilepsy, but the relevance of this association in the population at large is unknown. We assessed calcified cysticerci and its association wit[...]texto impreso
Del Brutto, Oscar H. ; Salgado, Perla ; Lama, Julio ; Del Brutto, Victor J. ; Campos, Xavier ; Zambrano, Mauricio ; Garcia, Hector H. | American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 2019-02-06T14:57:39ZCalcified neurocysticercosis has been associated with hippocampal atrophy in patients with refractory epilepsy, but the relevance of this association in the population at large is unknown. We assessed calcified cysticerci and its association wit[...]texto impreso
Bustos, Javier A. ; Arroyo, Gianfranco ; Gilman, Robert H. ; Soto-Becerra, Percy ; Gonzales, Isidro ; Saavedra, Herbert ; Pretell, E. Javier ; Nash, Theodore E. ; O'Neal, Seth E. ; Del Brutto, Oscar H. ; Gonzalez, Armando E. ; Garcia, Hector H. ; Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru | Oxford University Press | 2020-07-14T00:00:59ZBACKGROUND: Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is a major cause of acquired epilepsy in most of the world. Larval cysts in the human brain eventually resolve and either disappear or leave a calcified scar that is associated with seizures. This study asses[...]texto impreso
Garcia, Hector H. ; Castillo, Yesenia ; Gonzales, Isidro ; Bustos, Javier A. ; Saavedra, Herbert ; Jacob, Louis ; Del Brutto, Oscar H. ; Wilkins, Patricia P. ; Gonzalez, Armando E. ; Gilman, Robert H. ; Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru | Wiley | 2018-11-30T17:17:15ZOBJECTIVE: 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 (NCC) by LLGP-EITB [...]texto impreso
Garcia, Hector H. ; Nath, Avindra ; Del Brutto, Oscar H. | Georg Thieme Verlag | 2019-12-06T20:57:45ZParasitic infections of the central nervous system are much more common than suspected, although most infections are asymptomatic. For example, parasites like the ubiquitous protozoa Toxoplasma gondii or the nematode larvae Toxocara canis infect[...]texto impreso
Garcia, Hector H. ; Nath, Avindra ; Del Brutto, Oscar H. | Georg Thieme Verlag | 2019-08-08T15:23:48ZParasitic infections of the central nervous system are much more common than suspected, although most infections are asymptomatic. For example, parasites like the ubiquitous protozoa Toxoplasma gondii or the nematode larvae Toxocara canis infect[...]texto impreso
Bustos, Javier A. ; Garcia, Hector H. ; Del Brutto, Oscar H. | American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 2019-01-25T17:00:29ZIntraventricular neurocysticercosis (NCC) is a severe form of NCC requiring prompt diagnosis and treatment. We aimed to assess the reliability of the most recent version of diagnostic criteria for this form of NCC. Two systematic literature revi[...]texto impreso
Bustos, Javier A. ; Garcia, Hector H. ; Del Brutto, Oscar H. | American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 2019-01-25T17:00:30Ztexto impreso
Del Brutto, Oscar H. ; O'Neal, Seth E. ; Dorny, Pierre ; Garcia, Hector H. | American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 2018-11-30T22:50:37ZTaenia solium cysticercosis is difficult to eliminate without interventions or societal development. Atahualpa is a rural Ecuadorian village with documented low migration rate, where domestic pig raising is common and human cysticercosis is ende[...]texto impreso
Human taeniasis as well as porcine and human cysticercosis — caused by the pork tapeworm Taenia solium — are ancient diseases. The fact that pigs were considered impure in the ancient Greece and that the Koran prohibited the consumption of pork,[...]texto impreso
Del Brutto, Oscar H. ; Issa, Naoum P. ; Salgado, Perla ; Del Brutto, Victor J. ; Zambrano, Mauricio ; Lama, Julio ; Garcia, Hector H. | American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 2019-01-25T16:03:21ZNeurocysticercosis (NCC) has been associated with hippocampal atrophy, but the prevalence and pathogenic mechanisms implicated in this relationship are unknown. Using a population-based, case-control study design, residents in a rural village (A[...]
