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Comprehensive management of epilepsy in onchocerciasis-endemic areas: lessons learnt from community-based surveys

BACKGROUND: Onchocerciasis-endemic regions are known to have a high epilepsy prevalence. Limited resources in these areas and poor access to healthcare by persons with epilepsy (PWE) result in a wide anti-epileptic treatment gap, poor seizure control and a high burden of seizure-related complication...

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Autores principales:	Siewe Fodjo, Joseph Nelson, Dekker, Marieke C. J., Idro, Richard, Mandro, Michel Ndahura, Preux, Pierre-Marie, Njamnshi, Alfred K., Colebunders, Robert
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2019
Materias:	Scoping Review
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6368958/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30738437 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-019-0523-y

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