In pursuit of a cure: The plural therapeutic landscape of onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy in Cameroon – A mixed methods study

• Maya Ronse ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mronse@itg.be

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7182-6940

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• Julia Irani,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0224-1794

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• Charlotte Gryseels,

  Roles Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8963-4469

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• Tom Smekens,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3599-1719

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• Serge Ekukole,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine (Neurology Unit), Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Science, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Caroline Teh Monteh,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine (Neurology Unit), Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Science, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Peter Tatah Ntaimah,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Hygiene, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

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• Susan Dierickx,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre of Expertise on Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality (RHEA), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

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• Kristien Verdonck,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1153-4078

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• Robert Colebunders,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1919-1340

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• Alfred K. Njamnshi,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine (Neurology Unit), Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Science, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon, Department of Neurology, Central Hospital Yaoundé, Yaoundé, Cameroon, Brain Research Africa Initiative (BRAIN), Yaoundé, Cameroon & Geneva, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0052-1511

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• Sarah O’Neill ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors share last authorship on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Social Approaches to Health (CR5), Ecole de Santé Publique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, Laboratoire Anthropologique des Mondes Contemporains (LAMC), Faculté de Philosophie et de Sciences Sociales, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

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• Koen Peeters Grietens

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors share last authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6570-9887

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