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Nodding syndrome research, lessons learned from the NSETHIO project
BACKGROUND. Until recently, nodding syndrome (NS) was considered as a mysterious disease of unknown etiology. A link between onchocerciasis and epilepsy was suspected for a long time. However, onchocerciasis was not considered as the cause of NS because NS was believed to occur only in onchocerciasi...
Autores principales: | Geelhand de Merxem, D., Siewe Fodjo, J. N., Menon, S., Hotterbeekx, A., Colebunders, R. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6880249/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31807310 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/gmh.2019.24 |
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