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Focus of Ongoing Onchocerciasis Transmission Close to Bangui, Central African Republic

Recently, there were anecdotal reports of a high number of persons with epilepsy, including children with nodding seizures in the Landja Mboko area located about 9 km from the capital city Bangui, Central African Republic. We suspected the area to be endemic for onchocerciasis, and that the alleged...

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Autores principales:	de Smet, Eric, Metanmo, Salvatore, Mbelesso, Pascal, Kemata, Benoit, Siewe Fodjo, Joseph N., Boumédiène, Farid, Ekwoge, Hilda T., Yangatimbi, Emmanuel, Ajzenberg, Daniel, Badibanga, Orphee, Preux, Pierre-Marie, Colebunders, Robert
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	MDPI 2020
Materias:	Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7281167/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32365847 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens9050337

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