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  1. Cysticercosis Unit, Department of Transmissible Diseases, Instituto de Ciencias Neurologicas, Jr.Ancash 1271, Barrios Altos, Lima 1, Peru

    Hector H. Garcia & Javier Pretell

  2. Departments of Microbiology and Pathology, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, H. Delgado 430, S. M. P., Lima 31, Peru

    Hector H. Garcia & Robert H. Gilman

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Garcia, H.H., Pretell, J., Gilman, R.H. et al. Neurocysticercosis and the global world. J Neurol 249, 1107–1108 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-002-0722-4

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