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Disseminated cysticercosis: clinical spectrum, Toll-like receptor-4 gene polymorphisms and role of albendazole: A prospective follow-up of 60 cases with a review of 56 published cases.
Medicine - 1 Sept 2016
Qavi Abdul, Garg Ravindra Kumar, Malhotra Hardeep Singh, Jain Amita, Kumar Neeraj, Malhotra Kiran Preet, Srivastava Pradeep Kumar, Verma Rajesh, Sharma Praveen Kumar
Abstract excerpt
In this study, we describe clinical and imaging spectrum, and the natural course of patients with disseminated cysticercosis. How albendazole affects the course of disease has also been evaluated. We assessed the Toll-like receptor-4 gene polymorphisms, to know the reason for the apparently higher prevalence of disseminated cysticercosis in India.Sixty consecutive patients with disseminated cysticercosis were...
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