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The Brazilian contribution to the study of neurocysticercosis: Moses and Lange？s role in cerebrospinal fluid diagnosisDOI: 10.1590/S0004-282X2006000300036 Keywords: arthur moses, immunological diagnosis of neurocysticercosis, oswaldo lange, csf diagnosis of neurocysticercosis, cerebrospinal fluid, neurocysticercosis. Abstract: 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.
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