High prevalence of epilepsy in an onchocerciasis endemic health zone in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, despite 14 years of community-directed treatment with ivermectin: A mixed-method assessment

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the reasons for the high prevalence of epilepsy (>6%) discovered in 2015 in the Aketi health zone in the north of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. METHODS: Persons with epilepsy (PWE) diagnosed in a door-to-door survey in 2015 were traced and re-examined in 2017 by...

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Autores principales: Mukendi, Deby, Tepage, Floribert, Akonda, Innocent, Siewe, Joseph Nelson Fodjo, Rotsaert, Anke, Ndibmun, Carl Nwana, Laudisoit, Anne, Couvreur, Simon, Kabutako, Blandine, Menon, Sonia, Hotterbeekx, An, Colebunders, Robert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6353816/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30711145
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2018.10.021

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6353816/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30711145
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2018.10.021

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