Literature DB >> 29299448

Unravelling the mysterious onchocerciasis-nodding syndrome link: new developments and future challenges.

Angelina Kakooza-Mwesige1,2.   

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Year:  2017        PMID: 29299448      PMCID: PMC5750291          DOI: 10.21037/atm.2017.09.36

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Ann Transl Med        ISSN: 2305-5839


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1.  Population-level evidence for an autoimmune etiology of epilepsy.

Authors:  Mei-Sing Ong; Isaac S Kohane; Tianxi Cai; Mark P Gorman; Kenneth D Mandl
Journal:  JAMA Neurol       Date:  2014-05       Impact factor: 18.302

Review 2.  Autoantibodies associated with diseases of the CNS: new developments and future challenges.

Authors:  Angela Vincent; Christian G Bien; Sarosh R Irani; Patrick Waters
Journal:  Lancet Neurol       Date:  2011-08       Impact factor: 44.182

3.  A longitudinal study on nodding syndrome--a new African epilepsy disorder.

Authors:  Andrea S Winkler; Bernd Wallner; Katrin Friedrich; Bettina Pfausler; Iris Unterberger; William Matuja; Luise Jilek-Aall; Erich Schmutzhard
Journal:  Epilepsia       Date:  2013-12-20       Impact factor: 5.864

4.  'These nodding people': Experiences of having a child with nodding syndrome in postconflict Northern Uganda.

Authors:  Kristine Buchmann
Journal:  Epilepsy Behav       Date:  2014-12-11       Impact factor: 2.937

5.  Nodding syndrome in Tanzania may not be associated with circulating anti-NMDA-and anti-VGKC receptor antibodies or decreased pyridoxal phosphate serum levels-a pilot study.

Authors:  Anelia Dietmann; Bernd Wallner; Rebekka König; Katrin Friedrich; Bettina Pfausler; Florian Deisenhammer; Andrea Griesmacher; Christoph Seger; William Matuja; Louise JilekAall; Andrea S Winkler; Erich Schmutzhard
Journal:  Afr Health Sci       Date:  2014-06       Impact factor: 0.927

Review 6.  The growing recognition of immunotherapy-responsive seizure disorders with autoantibodies to specific neuronal proteins.

Authors:  Angela Vincent; Sarosh R Irani; Bethan Lang
Journal:  Curr Opin Neurol       Date:  2010-04       Impact factor: 5.710

7.  Nodding syndrome may be an autoimmune reaction to the parasitic worm Onchocerca volvulus.

Authors:  Tory P Johnson; Richa Tyagi; Paul R Lee; Myoung-Hwa Lee; Kory R Johnson; Jeffrey Kowalak; Abdel Elkahloun; Marie Medynets; Alina Hategan; Joseph Kubofcik; James Sejvar; Jeffrey Ratto; Sudhir Bunga; Issa Makumbi; Jane R Aceng; Thomas B Nutman; Scott F Dowell; Avindra Nath
Journal:  Sci Transl Med       Date:  2017-02-15       Impact factor: 17.956

8.  Prevalence of neurologic autoantibodies in cohorts of patients with new and established epilepsy.

Authors:  Tanja Brenner; Graeme J Sills; Yvonne Hart; Stephen Howell; Patrick Waters; Martin J Brodie; Angela Vincent; Bethan Lang
Journal:  Epilepsia       Date:  2013-03-06       Impact factor: 5.864

9.  Catatonia in Ugandan children with nodding syndrome and effects of treatment with lorazepam: a pilot study.

Authors:  Angelina Kakooza-Mwesige; Dirk M Dhossche; Richard Idro; Dickens Akena; Joyce Nalugya; Benard T Opar
Journal:  BMC Res Notes       Date:  2015-12-28

Review 10.  The Laboratory Diagnosis of Autoimmune Encephalitis.

Authors:  Sang Kun Lee; Soon-Tae Lee
Journal:  J Epilepsy Res       Date:  2016-12-31
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1.  Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy with Head Nodding Seizures-Nodding Syndrome: A Case Series of 15 Patients from Western Uganda, 1994.

Authors:  Christoph Kaiser; George Asaba; Tom Rubaale; Ephraim Tukesiga; Walter Kipp
Journal:  Am J Trop Med Hyg       Date:  2018-11       Impact factor: 2.345

2.  Economic burden of the persistent morbidity of nodding syndrome on caregivers in affected households in Northern Uganda.

Authors:  Lugala Samson Yoane Latio; Nguyen Hai Nam; Jaffer Shah; Chris Smith; Kikuko Sakai; Kato Stonewall Shaban; Richard Idro; Nishi Makoto; Nguyen Tien Huy; Shinjiro Hamano; Kazuhiko Moji
Journal:  PLoS One       Date:  2020-09-29       Impact factor: 3.240

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