About the Authors

Ryan G. Wagner

Ryan.wagner@wits.ac.za

Affiliations Studies of Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems (SEEDS)–INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana, MRC/Wits Rural Public Health & Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Epidemiology and Public Health Sciences, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Neurosciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Christian Bottomley

Affiliations Studies of Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems (SEEDS)–INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, MRC Tropical Epidemiology Group, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Anthony K. Ngugi

Affiliations Studies of Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems (SEEDS)–INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana, Research Support Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aga Khan University–East Africa, Nairobi, Kenya

Fredrick Ibinda

Affiliation KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research–Coast, Kilifi, Kenya

F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé

Affiliations MRC/Wits Rural Public Health & Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana

Kathleen Kahn

Affiliations Studies of Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems (SEEDS)–INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana, MRC/Wits Rural Public Health & Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Epidemiology and Public Health Sciences, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana

Stephen Tollman

Affiliations Studies of Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems (SEEDS)–INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana, MRC/Wits Rural Public Health & Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Epidemiology and Public Health Sciences, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana

Charles R. Newton

Affiliations Studies of Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems (SEEDS)–INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana, MRC/Wits Rural Public Health & Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research–Coast, Kilifi, Kenya, Neurosciences Unit, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom, Clinical Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

on behalf of the SEEDS Writing Group

Membership of the SEEDS Writing Group can be found in the Acknowledgments section.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RW KK ST CRN. Performed the experiments: RW XGO ST AKN CRN. Analyzed the data: RW CB FI. Wrote the paper: RW CB AKN FI XGO KK ST CRN.