Onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy and biomarkers

Robert Colebunders; Amber Hadermann; Alfred K Njamnshi; Bruno P Mmbando; Olivia Kamoen; Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0011808

Onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy and biomarkers

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2024 May 9;18(5):e0011808. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0011808. eCollection 2024 May.

Authors

Robert Colebunders¹, Amber Hadermann¹, Alfred K Njamnshi^{2

3}, Bruno P Mmbando⁴, Olivia Kamoen⁵, Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
² Brain Research Africa Initiative (BRAIN), Yaoundé, Cameroon.
³ Neuroscience Lab, Faculty of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, The University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
⁴ National Institute for medical Research, Tanga Research Centre, Tanga, Tanzania.
⁵ Department of Neurology, Heilig Hart Ziekenhuis, Lier, Belgium.

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Animals
Biomarkers*
Epilepsy* / etiology
Epilepsy* / parasitology
Humans
Onchocerciasis* / complications

Substances

Biomarkers

Grants and funding

Funding RC and JNSF received funding from the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), grant numbers G0A0522N and 1296723N respectively. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.