Héctor H. Garcı́a

Research interests

Publications

• Diagnosis and Treatment of Neurocysticercosis: 2017 Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)1

  Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciy157

• Diagnosis and Treatment of Neurocysticercosis: 2017 Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)

  Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/cix1084

• Revised diagnostic criteria for neurocysticercosis

  Journal of the Neurological Sciences · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2016.11.045

• Efficacy of combined antiparasitic therapy with praziquantel and albendazole for neurocysticercosis: a double-blind, randomised controlled trial

  The Lancet Infectious Diseases · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s1473-3099(14)70779-0

• Clinical symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of neurocysticercosis

  The Lancet Neurology · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s1474-4422(14)70094-8

• A Research Agenda for Helminth Diseases of Humans: Intervention for Control and Elimination

  PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001549

• Diagnosis and treatment of neurocysticercosis

  Nature Reviews Neurology · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nrneurol.2011.135

• Cystic Echinococcosis: Chronic, Complex, and Still Neglected

  PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001146

• Perilesional brain oedema and seizure activity in patients with calcified neurocysticercosis: a prospective cohort and nested case–control study

  The Lancet Neurology · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s1474-4422(08)70243-6

• Prevention and control of cystic echinococcosis

  The Lancet Infectious Diseases · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s1473-3099(07)70134-2

• Meta-Analysis: Cysticidal Drugs for Neurocysticercosis: Albendazole and Praziquantel

  Annals of Internal Medicine · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-145-1-200607040-00009

• Treatment of neurocysticercosis

  Neurology · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1212/01.wnl.0000238514.51747.3a

• Epilepsy and Neurocysticercosis in Atahualpa: A Door‐to‐Door Survey in Rural Coastal Ecuador

  Epilepsia · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0013-9580.2005.36504.x

• Neurocysticercosis

  Neurology · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1212/01.wnl.0000168828.83461.09

• A Trial of Antiparasitic Treatment to Reduce the Rate of Seizures Due to Cerebral Cysticercosis

  New England Journal of Medicine · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa031294

• Calcific neurocysticercosis and epileptogenesis

  Neurology · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1212/01.wnl.0000129481.12067.06

• Taenia solium cysticercosis

  The Lancet · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(03)14117-7

• Current Consensus Guidelines for Treatment of Neurocysticercosis

  Clinical Microbiology Reviews · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1128/cmr.15.4.747-756.2002

• A proposal to declare neurocysticercosis an international reportable disease.

  PubMed · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1590/s0042-96862000000300016

• Magnitude of the Disease Burden from Neurocysticercosis in a Developing Country

  Clinical Infectious Diseases · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1086/313470

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