High epilepsy prevalence and excess mortality in onchocerciasis-endemic counties of South Sudan: A call for integrated interventions

• Luís-Jorge Amaral ,

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

  * E-mail: luis-jorge.telesdemenesesdoamaral@uantwerpen.be

  Affiliations Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, UK Medical Research Council Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, and London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8155-9014

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• Stephen Raimon Jada,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Amref Health Africa, Juba, South Sudan

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• Jane Y. Carter,

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

  Affiliation Amref Health Africa Headquarters, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Yak Yak Bol,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Unit, Ministry of Health, Juba, South Sudan

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• María-Gloria Basáñez,

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UK Medical Research Council Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, and London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Charles R. Newton,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Neurosciences Unit, Clinical Department, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme-Coast, Kilifi, Kenya

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• Joseph N. Siewe Fodjo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Robert Colebunders

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

  Affiliations Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Tropical Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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