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What's the Connection Between Tenia Solium and Neurosysti Cercosis?

By 17 82, the three species of tenia that i've mostly been talking about, teneas solium, tenius hagenata and tena asiatic, these three species were differentiated. Ten years later, a peruvian ph in named hippolito unanue was the first that we know of to record a case of someone with both an intestinal tapeworm infection but also neuro systi cercosis low ye. Even still, it wasn't fully recognized that the worm in someone's gut could be linked to those cists in their brain until the 18 hundreds. And this classic t p w ky episode wouldn't be complete without an instance of self

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