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Nodding syndrome in Uganda is a tauopathy

Nodding syndrome is an epidemic neurologic disorder of unknown cause that affects children in the subsistence-farming communities of East Africa. We report the neuropathologic findings in five fatal cases (13–18 years of age at death) of nodding syndrome from the Acholi people in northern Uganda. Ne...

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Autores principales: Pollanen, Michael S., Onzivua, Sylvester, Robertson, Janice, McKeever, Paul M., Olawa, Francis, Kitara, David L., Fong, Amanda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6208726/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30219940
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00401-018-1909-9