Head nodding syndrome and river blindness: A parasitologic perspective: Letters

Epilepsia

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2325-2326

  Kaiser, Christoph ^a   Pion, Sébastien ^b   Boussinesq, Michel ^b  

^a Basic Health Services Kabarole   (Uganda)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; GEOGRAPHY; HEAD NODDING SYNDROME; LETTER; MICROFILARIA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIPARASITIC AGENTS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; HUMANS; INFANT; IVERMECTIN; MICROFILARIA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; ONCHOCERCIASIS, OCULAR; SPASMS, INFANTILE; SYNDROME;

EID: 70349330913     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2009.02280.x     Document Type: Letter

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