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Corticosteroid use in neurocysticercosis

Theodore E Nash Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, NIAID, NIH, 4 Center Drive, Building 4, Room 126, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, NIAID, NIH, 4 Center Drive, Building 4, Room 126, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Siddhartha Mahanty Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, NIAID, NIH, 4 Center Drive, Building 4, Room 126, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, NIAID, NIH, 4 Center Drive, Building 4, Room 126, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Hector H Garcia Department of Microbiology, School of Sciences, and Center for Global Health – Tumbes, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru. [email protected]; Cysticercosis Unit, Instituto de Ciencias Neurologicas, Lima, Peru; Instituto Peruano de Parasitología Clínica y Experimental, Lima, Peru; Department of Microbiology, School of Sciences, and Center for Global Health – Tumbes, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru. [email protected]; Cysticercosis Unit, Instituto de Ciencias Neurologicas, Lima, Peru; Instituto Peruano de Parasitología Clínica y Experimental, Lima, Peru
& The Cysticercosis Group in Peru
Pages 1175-1183 | Published online: 09 Jan 2014

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