Low prevalence of epilepsy and onchocerciasis after more than 20 years of ivermectin treatment in the Imo River Basin in Nigeria

BACKGROUND: High epilepsy prevalence and incidence have been reported in areas with high onchocerciasis transmission. Recent findings suggest that proper community-directed treatment with ivermectin (CDTI) is potentially able to prevent onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy (OAE). We assessed the epile...

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Autores principales: Siewe, Joseph N. F., Ukaga, Chinyere N., Nwazor, Ernest O., Nwoke, Murphy O., Nwokeji, Modebelu C., Onuoha, Blessing C., Nwanjor, Simon O., Okeke, Joel, Osahor, Kate, Chimechefulam, Lilian, Ogomaka, Ann I., Amaechi, Augustine A., Ezenwa, Chika I., Ezike, Monika N., Ikpeama, Chidimma, Nwachukwu, Ogechi, Eriama-Joseph, Austine I., Nwoke, Berthram E. B., Colebunders, Robert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6343278/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30670093
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-019-0517-9

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6343278/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30670093
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-019-0517-9

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