Prevalence of neurocysticercosis and its characteristics among people with epileptic seizures and progressively worsening severe headaches in 60 villages in three provinces of Burkina Faso

• Athanase Millogo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Athanase Millogo, Veronique Dermauw

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Souro Sanou, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, Université Ouagadougou, Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

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• Veronique Dermauw ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Athanase Millogo, Veronique Dermauw

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

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8745-5304

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• Rasmané Ganaba,

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

  Affiliation AFRICSanté, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

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• Pierre Dorny,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Zékiba Tarnagda,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

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• Rabiou Cissé,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiodiagnosis and Medical Imagery, Yalgado Ouedraogo University Hospital Center, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

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• Marie-Paule Boncoeur-Martel,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hôpital Universitaire Dupuytren, Limoges, France

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• Vivien Richter,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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• Andrea S. Winkler,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Neurology, TUM University Hospital, and Center for Global Health, School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany, Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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• Hélène Carabin

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

  * E-mail: helene.carabin@umontreal.ca

  Affiliations Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada, Centre de Recherche en Santé Publique (CReSP), Montreal, Canada, Groupe de Recherche en Épidémiologie des Zoonoses et Santé Publique (GREZOSP), Montreal, Canada, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2822-4730

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