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Autor:
Henry Onen, C. Kaiser, Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo, Donozio Kisembo, George Asaba, Frank Mubiru, Robert Colebunders, Nolbert Gumisiriza
Publikováno v:
The lancet infectious diseases
Background In 1994, prevalence and incidence of epilepsy were high in the Itwara onchocerciasis focus (western Uganda), and cases of nodding and Nakalanga syndrome were documented. Onchocerciasis transmission was interrupted successfully in 2001. 17
Publikováno v:
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 99:1211-1218
Nodding syndrome (NS) is an encephalopathy characterized by the core symptom of epileptic head nodding seizures, affecting children at the age between 3 and 18 years in distinct areas of tropical Africa. A consistent correlation with onchocerciasis w
Autor:
Christoph Kaiser, Donozio Kisembo, Nolbert Gumisiriza, George Asaba, Robert Colebunders, Walter Kipp, Christine Mugisa, Ephraim Tukesiga
Publikováno v:
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
Am J Trop Med Hyg
Am J Trop Med Hyg
Nakalanga syndrome is a childhood developmental disorder that has been reported from various parts of sub-Saharan Africa with the major sign of retarded growth, regularly combined with physical deformities, impaired mental and pubertal development, a
Autor:
C. Kaiser, J.N. Siewe Fodjo, Robert Colebunders, George Asaba, Donozio Kisembo, Nolbert Gumisiriza, Frank Mubiru, H. Onen
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
Background: In 1994, high rates of epilepsy prevalence and incidence were found in the Itwara onchocerciasis focus (western Uganda) where transmission was successfully interrupted in 2001. Seventeen years later, we investigated the effect of onchocer
Publikováno v:
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 93:198-202
Nodding syndrome (NS) is a poorly understood condition, which was delineated in 2008 as a new epilepsy syndrome. So far, confirmed cases of NS have been observed in three circumscribed African areas: southern Tanzania, southern Sudan, and northern Ug
Autor:
Walter Kipp, Ephraim Tukesiga, Tom Rubaale, Joa Okech Ojony, George Asaba, Geoffrey Kabagambe, Christoph Kaiser
Publikováno v:
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
In 38 pairs of epilepsy patients and controls matched for time and intensity of exposure to transmission of onchocerciasis, the presence of microfilariae in the skin of epilepsy patients was found insignificantly elevated compared with controls (odds
Publikováno v:
Epilepsy research. 30(3)
The incidence of epilepsy was assessed in an onchocerciasis endemic area in West Uganda over a period of 4 years. A high overall crude incidence rate of 215 per 100 000 person-years was found (age-adjusted: 156 per 100 000 person-years) and the incid
Autor:
Christoph Kaiser, George Asaba, Ephraim Tukesiga, Joa Okech Ojony, Walter Kipp, Geoffrey Kabagambe, Tom Rubaale
Publikováno v:
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Dear Sir: We thank Pion and Boussinesq1 for the initiative to reanalyze the data of their study from an onchocerciasis endemic area in Central Cameroon that, in part, had been published in 2002.2 Their finding of a significant association between epi