%0 Journal Article
%T The Brazilian contribution to the study of neurocysticercosis: Moses and Lange£¿s role in cerebrospinal fluid diagnosis
%A Teive
%A H¨¦lio A.G.
%A Almeida
%A S¨¦rgio M. de
%A Werneck
%A Lineu C¨¦sar
%J Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
%D 2006
%I Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO
%R 10.1590/S0004-282X2006000300036
%X we report the seminal contributions of both dr. arthur moses (instituto oswaldo cruz, rio de janeiro), in 1911, and dr. oswaldo lange (faculdade de medicina da usp, s£¿o paulo), in 1940, to the diagnosis of neurocysticercosis (nc). moses was the first person to report an immunologically based method for the diagnosis of nc, whereas lange reported the cerebrospinal features of nc.
%K arthur moses
%K immunological diagnosis of neurocysticercosis
%K oswaldo lange
%K csf diagnosis of neurocysticercosis
%K cerebrospinal fluid
%K neurocysticercosis.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0004-282X2006000300036&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en