Active infection with Onchocerca volvulus and the linkage to epilepsy/nodding syndrome

• Kathrin Arndts ,

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

  * E-mail: kathrin.arndts@ukbonn.de (KA); hoerauf@uni-bonn.de (AH); andrea.winkler@tum.de (ASW)

  Affiliations Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology (IMMIP), University Hospital Bonn (UKB), Bonn, Germany, German-West African Centre for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention (G-WAC), Partner Site Bonn, Bonn, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1091-4861

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• Josua Kegele,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Department of Neurology and Epileptology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Manuel Ritter,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology (IMMIP), University Hospital Bonn (UKB), Bonn, Germany, German-West African Centre for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention (G-WAC), Partner Site Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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• Clarissa Prazeres da Costa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Global Health, School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, TUM School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Munich, Munich, Germany

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• Achim Hoerauf ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kathrin.arndts@ukbonn.de (KA); hoerauf@uni-bonn.de (AH); andrea.winkler@tum.de (ASW)

  ¶‡ These author share last authorship on this work.

  Affiliations Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology (IMMIP), University Hospital Bonn (UKB), Bonn, Germany, German-West African Centre for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention (G-WAC), Partner Site Bonn, Bonn, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Bonn-Cologne, Bonn, Germany

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• Andrea S. Winkler

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kathrin.arndts@ukbonn.de (KA); hoerauf@uni-bonn.de (AH); andrea.winkler@tum.de (ASW)

  ¶‡ These author share last authorship on this work.

  Affiliations Center for Global Health, School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Department of Neurology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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