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Genotoxicity of vesicular fluid and saline extract of Taenia solium metacestodes in somatic cells of Drosophila melanogaster.
Environmental and molecular mutagenesis - 1 May 2006
Silva Luciana Pereira, Costa-Cruz Julia Maria, Spanó Mário Antônio, Graf Ulrich
Abstract excerpt
Neurocysticercosis, the most common parasitic disease of the central nervous system, is caused by cysticerci of the helminth Taenia solium, which is prevalent in developing countries and is reemerging in affluent societies. This helminth is associated with brain tumors and hematological malignancies in humans. In the present study, we analyzed the genotoxicity of vesicular fluid (VF) and a saline extract (SE) of...
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