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ArticlemedRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2025

Identification of abnormal patterns of evolution of neurocysticercosis cysts and what they might indicate.

Meghana G Shamsunder, Afroza Parvin, Hongbin Zhang, Arturo Carpio, W Allen Hauser, Alex Jaramillo, Jorge Moncayo, Karina Quinde Herrera, Elizabeth A Kelvin

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Article in medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Meghana G ShamsunderCUNY School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.
Afroza ParvinCUNY School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.
Hongbin ZhangCUNY School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.
Arturo CarpioSchool of Medicine, University of Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador.
W Allen HauserMailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Alex JaramilloInstituto de Diagnóstico por Imágenes, Cuenca, Ecuador.
Jorge MoncayoEscuela de Medicina. Universidad Internacional del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
Karina Quinde HerreraSchool of Medicine, University of Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador.
Elizabeth A KelvinCUNY School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.

Funding

Characterizing Factors that Impact the Evolution of Neurocysticercosis Cysts: A Cyst-Level Analysis Using New Statistical Methods for Complex Longitudinal DataR03NS111189 · NINDS · GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH POLICY · PI KELVIN, ELIZABETH A · 2020 to 2020
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NINDS NIH HHS R03 NS111189
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Few studies have described unexpected patterns of cyst evolution for neurocysticercosis (NCC), an infection of the central nervous system with the larval stage of the pork tapeworm,

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CystEcuadorEvolutionNeurocysticercosisrandomized controlled trialRCTTaenia solium

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PMID40791682
PMCPMC12338901

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