Onchocerciasis-related epilepsy? Prospects at a time of uncertainty

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-20

  Marin, Benoît ^a   Boussinesq, Michel ^b,c   Druet Cabanac, Michel ^a   Kamgno, Joseph ^c   Bouteille, Bernard ^a   Preux, Pierre Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LIMOGES   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c CENTRE PASTEUR DU CAMEROUN   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CROSS REACTION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPILEPSY; GENETIC STRAIN; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INSOMNIA; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PATHOGENICITY; PRURITUS; REVIEW;

ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS;

EID: 29544436370     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2005.11.006     Document Type: Article

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