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Peter M. Schantz
Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Publications - 14
Citations - 1392
Peter M. Schantz is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Echinococcosis & Cysticercosis. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 14 publications receiving 1354 citations.
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Neurocysticercosis in an orthodox jewish community in New York City
Peter M. Schantz,Anne C. Moore,Jose Munoz,Barry J. Hartman,John A. Schaefer,Alan M. Aron,Deborah Persaud,Elsa Sarti,Marianna Wilson,Ana Flisser +9 more
TL;DR: A diagnosis of neurocysticercosis should be considered in patients with seizures and radiologic evidence of cystic brain lesions, even in those who do not eat pork and who have not traveled to a country in which T. solium infection is endemic.
Epidemiology and control of hydatid disease
Peter M. Schantz,J. Chai,Philip S. Craig,J. Eckert,David Jenkins,Calum N. L. Macpherson,A. Thakur +6 more
Geographic distribution and prevalence.
Johannes Eckert,Peter M. Schantz,Robin B. Gasser,Paul R. Torgerson,A. S. Bessonov,S. O. Movsessian,A. Thakur,Felix Grimm,M. A. Nikogossian,M. A. Gemmell,F. X. Meslin,Z. Pawlowski +11 more
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Immigrants, Imaging, and Immunoblots: the Emergence of Neurocysticercosis as a Significant Public Health Problem
TL;DR: The results of this study suggest that still reliable criteria to determine which patients require treatment with either praziquantel or albendazole is lacking, and approximately half of the patients in this study had anticysticercal antibodies that recognized all seven of the diagnostic proteins.
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Cysticercosis in Los Angeles County.
TL;DR: A dramatic rise in numbers of cases was observed after 1977, appearing to plateau at approximately 80 cases per year in 1981, and the increase in cases beginning in 1977 coincided with the introduction of the computed tomographic scan.