Low seroprevalence of systemic cysticercosis among patients with epilepsy in Kerala - South India

• Main Authors: Ajith Cherian (Author), U.K. Syam (Author), D. Sreevidya (Author), T. Jayaraman (Author), Anna Oommen (Author), Vedantam Rajshekhar (Author), Kurupath Radhakrishnan (Author), Sanjeev V. Thomas (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2014-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Purpose: Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is considered to be rare in Kerala state, India, although it is an important cause of epilepsy in many other parts of India. Our objective was to test this notion by determining the seroprevalence of cysticercosis (CC) in an unselected sample of persons with epileps...