River blindness goes beyond the eye: autoimmune antibodies, cross-reactive with Onchocerca volvulus antigen, detected in brain of patients with Nodding syndrome

Affiliations

¹ Pediatrician, Pediatric Practice, Baden-Baden, Germany.
² UMI 233, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) and University of Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France.

Editorial

Christoph Kaiser et al. Ann Transl Med. 2017 Dec.

. 2017 Dec;5(23):459.

doi: 10.21037/atm.2017.08.35.

¹ Pediatrician, Pediatric Practice, Baden-Baden, Germany.
² UMI 233, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) and University of Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

Nodding syndrome may be an autoimmune reaction to the parasitic worm Onchocerca volvulus.
Johnson TP, Tyagi R, Lee PR, Lee MH, Johnson KR, Kowalak J, Elkahloun A, Medynets M, Hategan A, Kubofcik J, Sejvar J, Ratto J, Bunga S, Makumbi I, Aceng JR, Nutman TB, Dowell SF, Nath A. Johnson TP, et al. Sci Transl Med. 2017 Feb 15;9(377):eaaf6953. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf6953. Sci Transl Med. 2017. PMID: 28202777 Free PMC article.

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