Human Extraparenchymal Neurocysticercosis: The Control of Inflammation Favors the Host…but Also the Parasite

Overview

Journal Front Immunol

Specialty Allergy & Immunology

Date 2018 Dec 4

PMID 30505305

Citations 12

Authors

Andrea Toledo

Rocio Osorio

Carlos Matus

Yazmin Martinez Lopez

Nancy Ramirez Cruz

Edda Sciutto

Gladis Fragoso

Antonio Arauz

Roger Carrillo-Mezo

Agnes Fleury

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