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. 2015 Aug 13;9(8):e0003880.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003880. eCollection 2015 Aug.

Nodding Syndrome May Be Only the Ears of the Hippo

Joseph Francis Wamala  1 , Mugagga Malimbo  1 , Floribert Tepage  2 , Luswa Lukwago  1 , Charles Lukoya Okot  3 , Robert O Cannon  4 , Anne Laudisoit  5 , Robert Colebunders  6
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Nodding Syndrome May Be Only the Ears of the Hippo

Joseph Francis Wamala et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. .
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Figures

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Fig 1. Number of suspected cases of Nodding Syndrome and convulsive epilepsy, by year of onset in Kitgum, Lamwo, and Pader Districts, Uganda (census of June 2012).
Fig 2
Fig 2. Rapid epidemiological map of onchocerciasis (REMO) (www.who.int/apoc/cdti/remo/) showing that in 2008, in the Kitgum and Pader Districts, Community Directed Treatment with Ivermectin (CDTI) was not available.
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