2019•Infection and ImmunityOpen access

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

Marcela Villegas, Edda Sciutto, M. Rosetti, Agnès Fleury, Gladis Fragoso

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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.

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Key concepts: Neurocysticercosis, Taenia crassiceps, Cysticercosis, Taenia solium, Biology, Locus (genetics), Immunology, Cestoda