Association of TRAF1/C5 Locus Polymorphisms with Epilepsy and Clinical Traits in Mexican Patients with Neurocysticercosis-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Association of TRAF1/C5 Locus Polymorphisms with Epilepsy and Clinical Traits in Mexican Patients with Neurocysticercosis

Published:2019-12 Issue:12 Volume:87 Page:
ISSN:0019-9567
Container-title:Infection and Immunity
language:en
Short-container-title:Infect Immun

Author:

Villegas Marcela¹,Sciutto Edda²,Rosetti Marcos²³,Fleury Agnes²⁴,Fragoso Gladis²

Affiliation:

1. Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico

2. Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico

3. Unidad Psicopatología y Desarrollo, Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, Mexico City, Mexico

4. Unidad Periférica del Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México en el Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía Dr. Manuel Velasco Suárez, Mexico City, Mexico

Abstract

Neurocysticercosis is caused by the establishment of Taenia solium cysts in the central nervous system. Murine cysticercosis by Taenia crassiceps is a useful model of cysticercosis in which the complement component 5 (C5) has been linked to infection resistance/permissiveness.

Funder

Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Immunology,Microbiology,Parasitology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/IAI.00347-19

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