The Brazilian contribution to the study of neurocysticercosis: Moses and Lange’s role in cerebrospinal fluid diagnosis A contribuição brasileira para o estudo da neurocisticercose: o papel de Moses e Lange no diagóstico liquórico

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, São Paulo), in 1940, to the diagnosis of neurocysticercosis (NC). Moses was the first person to report an immunologically based method...

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Main Authors: Hélio A.G. Teive, Sérgio M. de Almeida, Lineu César Werneck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO) 2006-06-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2006000300036