Post-treatment vascular leakage and inflammatory responses around brain cysts in porcine neurocysticercosis.

• Main Authors: Siddhartha Mahanty (Author), Miguel Angel Orrego (Author), Holger Mayta (Author), Miguel Marzal (Author), Carla Cangalaya (Author), Adriana Paredes (Author), Eloy Gonzales-Gustavson (Author), Gianfranco Arroyo (Author), Armando E Gonzalez (Author), Cristina Guerra-Giraldez (Author), Hector H García (Author), Theodore E Nash (Author), Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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Cysticidal treatment of neurocysticercosis, an infection of humans and pig brains with Taenia solium, results in an early inflammatory response directed to cysts causing seizures and focal neurological manifestations. Treatment-induced pericystic inflammation and its association with blood brain bar...