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ArticleBioMed research international2014

Pediatric neurocysticercosis: usefulness of antibody response in cysticidal treatment follow-up.

Venkata Subba Rao Atluri, Venkateswara Reddy Gogulamudi, Pratibha Singhi, Niranjan Khandelwal, Lakshmana Swamy Parasa, Nancy Malla

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Article in BioMed research international, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2021
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  3. Pediatric neurocysticercosis.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2018
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  5. Pediatric neurocysticercosis: current challenges and future prospects.Pediatric health, medicine and therapeutics · 2016
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Venkata Subba Rao AtluriDepartment of Immunology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA.
Venkateswara Reddy GogulamudiDepartment of Parasitology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh 160012, India.
Pratibha SinghiDepartment of Paediatrics, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh 160012, India.
Niranjan KhandelwalDepartment of Radiodiagnosis and Imaging, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh 160012, India.
Lakshmana Swamy ParasaDepartment of Veterinary Public Health, NTR College of Veterinary Science, Gannavaram, Andhra Pradesh 521102, India.
Nancy MallaDepartment of Parasitology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh 160012, India.
Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research · INDr. NTR University of Health Sciences · INFlorida International University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Serum and urine samples were collected from 33 NCC patients before the albendazole treatment, 3-6 and 12 months PT. At 3 months PT, 24 (72.7%) patients had no detectable CT/MRI lesions and 9 (27.2%) patients had persistent lesions. Antibody response to crude soluble extract (CSE), excretory secretory (ES), and lower molecular mass (LMM) (10-30 KDa) antigenic fraction of T. solium cysticerci was detected in serum and urine samples by ELISA. Before the treatment, out of 33 NCC children, 14 (42.4%), 22 (66.6%), and 11 (33.3%) serum samples were found positive with the use of CSE, ES, and LMM antigen, respectively. At 3-6 months PT, positivity rate was 5 (15.1%), 2 (6%), and 4 (12.1%) and at 12 months PT, positivity rate was 5 (15.1%), 0, and 3 (9%) with the use of CSE, ES, and LMM antigen, respectively. There was no significant difference in the positivity with the use of three antigens in pretreatment and PT urine samples. The study suggests that the use of ES antigen to detect antibody in serum samples may serve better purpose to evaluate the therapeutic response in patients with NCC.

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AnimalsAntibodies, HelminthAntigens, HelminthCell ExtractsChildChild, PreschoolEpilepsyFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHumansLarvaMaleNeurocysticercosisTaenia soliumAntibodies, HelminthAntigens, HelminthCell Extracts

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PMID25215297
PMCPMC4158118
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