Impact of a bi-annual community-directed treatment with ivermectin programme on the incidence of epilepsy in an onchocerciasis-endemic area of Mahenge, Tanzania: A population-based prospective study

• Dan Bhwana ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dan Bhwana, Luís-Jorge Amaral

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

  Affiliation National Institute for Medical Research, Tanga, Tanzania

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• Luís-Jorge Amaral ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dan Bhwana, Luís-Jorge Amaral

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Athanas Mhina,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute for Medical Research, Tanga, Tanzania

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• Paul Martine Hayuma,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute for Medical Research, Tanga, Tanzania

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• Filbert Francis,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute for Medical Research, Tanga, Tanzania

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• Joseph N. Siewe Fodjo,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Bruno P. Mmbando,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute for Medical Research, Tanga, Tanzania

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• Robert Colebunders

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

  * E-mail: robert.colebunders@uantwerpen.be

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

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

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