Methodological Challenges for Conducting Case-control Studies to Investigate the Association Between Onchocerciasis and Epilepsy Including Nodding Syndrome

Overview

Journal Brain Commun

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Neurology

Date 2024 Jan 1

PMID 38162901

Authors

Robert Colebunders

Amber Hadermann

Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo

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