Active infection with Onchocerca volvulus and the linkage to epilepsy/nodding syndrome

Kathrin Arndts; Josua Kegele; Manuel Ritter; Clarissa Prazeres da Costa; Achim Hoerauf; Andrea S Winkler

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0012076

Active infection with Onchocerca volvulus and the linkage to epilepsy/nodding syndrome

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2024 May 9;18(5):e0012076. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0012076. eCollection 2024 May.

Authors

Kathrin Arndts^{1

2}, Josua Kegele³, Manuel Ritter^{1

2}, Clarissa Prazeres da Costa^{4

5

6}, Achim Hoerauf^{1

2

7}, Andrea S Winkler^{4

8

9

10}

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology (IMMIP), University Hospital Bonn (UKB), Bonn, Germany.
² German-West African Centre for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention (G-WAC), Partner Site Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
³ Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Department of Neurology and Epileptology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
⁴ Center for Global Health, School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
⁵ Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, TUM School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
⁶ German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Munich, Munich, Germany.
⁷ German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Bonn-Cologne, Bonn, Germany.
⁸ Department of Neurology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
⁹ Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
¹⁰ Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Epilepsy* / parasitology
Humans
Nodding Syndrome* / parasitology
Onchocerca volvulus*
Onchocerciasis* / complications

Grants and funding

JK was funded by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Epileptologie (DGFE). ASW, CP and AH were co-applicants of the DZIF Verbundprojekt: TI 07.001. In addition, AH and CP are members of DZIF. AH is supported by the BMBF [01KA1611, 01KA2027 and 01KA2113A] and additionally funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy – EXC2151 – 390873048. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.