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Doxycycline for the treatment of nodding syndrome (DONS); the study protocol of a phase II randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Nodding syndrome is a poorly understood neurological disorder of unknown aetiology, affecting several thousand children in Africa. There has been a consistent epidemiological association with infection by the filarial parasite, Onchocerca volvulus and antibodies to leiomodin and DJ-1, cr...

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Autores principales:	Idro, Richard, Anguzu, Ronald, Ogwang, Rodney, Akun, Pamela, Abbo, Catherine, Mwaka, Amos Deogratius, Opar, Bernard, Nakamya, Phyellister, Taylor, Mark, Elliott, Alison, Vincent, Angela, Newton, Charles, Marsh, Kevin
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2019
Materias:	Study Protocol
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6402111/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30841858 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12883-019-1256-z

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