Incidence, Remission and Mortality of Convulsive Epilepsy in Rural Northeast South Africa

• Ryan G. Wagner ,

  * E-mail: 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Fredrick Ibinda,

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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• on behalf of the SEEDS Writing Group

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

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