Taenia solium cysticercosis hotspots surrounding tapeworm carriers: clustering on human seroprevalence but not on seizures.

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Published in PLoS Negl Trop Dis on January 27, 2009

Authors

Andres G Lescano1, Hector H Garcia, Robert H Gilman, Cesar M Gavidia, Victor C W Tsang, Silvia Rodriguez, Lawrence H Moulton, Manuel V Villaran, Silvia M Montano, Armando E Gonzalez, Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru

Author Affiliations

1: United States Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Public Health Training Program (AGL) and Virology Program (SMM), Lima, Perú.

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