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Subarachnoidal Neurocysticercosis non-responsive to cysticidal drugs: a case series

BACKGROUND: Neurocysticercosis (NC) is one of the most frequent parasitic diseases of the central nervous system. Cysticidal drugs, albendazole and praziquantel, are generally effective when parasites localize in the parenchyma. In contrast, parasites lodged in the subarachnoid basal cisterns are le...

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Autores principales: Cárdenas, Graciela, Carrillo-Mezo, Roger, Jung, Helgi, Sciutto, Edda, Hernandez, Jose Luis Soto, Fleury, Agnès
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2841125/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20202200
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2377-10-16