Iron Deficiency and Acute Seizures: Results from Children Living in Rural Kenya and a Meta-Analysis

Richard Idro; Samson Gwer; Thomas N. Williams; Tuda Otieno; Sophie Uyoga; Gregory Fegan; Piet A. Kager; Kathryn Maitland; Fenella Kirkham; Brian G. R. Neville; Charles R. J. Newton

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0014001

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Iron Deficiency and Acute Seizures: Results from Children Living in Rural Kenya and a Meta-Analysis

Richard Idro ,

* E-mail: ridro1@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Mulago Hospital/Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research – Coast, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kilifi, Kenya
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Samson Gwer,

Affiliation Centre for Geographic Medicine Research – Coast, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kilifi, Kenya
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Thomas N. Williams,

Affiliations Centre for Geographic Medicine Research – Coast, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kilifi, Kenya, Department of Paediatrics, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Tuda Otieno,

Affiliation Centre for Geographic Medicine Research – Coast, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kilifi, Kenya
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Sophie Uyoga,

Affiliation Centre for Geographic Medicine Research – Coast, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kilifi, Kenya
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Gregory Fegan,

Affiliations Centre for Geographic Medicine Research – Coast, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kilifi, Kenya, Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Piet A. Kager,

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine and AIDS, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Kathryn Maitland,

Affiliations Centre for Geographic Medicine Research – Coast, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kilifi, Kenya, Department of Paediatrics and Wellcome Trust Centre for Clinical Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
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Fenella Kirkham,

Affiliations Department of Paediatric Neurology, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom, Neurosciences Unit, The Wolfson Centre, University College London-Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom
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Brian G. R. Neville,

Affiliation Neurosciences Unit, The Wolfson Centre, University College London-Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom
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Charles R. J. Newton

Affiliations Centre for Geographic Medicine Research – Coast, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kilifi, Kenya, Neurosciences Unit, The Wolfson Centre, University College London-Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom, Clinical Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Iron Deficiency and Acute Seizures: Results from Children Living in Rural Kenya and a Meta-Analysis

Richard Idro,
Samson Gwer,
Thomas N. Williams,
Tuda Otieno,
Sophie Uyoga,
Gregory Fegan,
Piet A. Kager,
Kathryn Maitland,
Fenella Kirkham,
Brian G. R. Neville

Published: November 16, 2010
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0014001

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