A screening questionnaire for convulsive seizures: A three-stage field-validation in rural Bolivia

Loretta Giuliano; Calogero Edoardo Cicero; Elizabeth Blanca Crespo Gómez; Sandra Padilla; Elisa Bruno; Mario Camargo; Benoit Marin; Vito Sofia; Pierre-Marie Preux; Marianne Strohmeyer; Alessandro Bartoloni; Alessandra Nicoletti

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0173945

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A screening questionnaire for convulsive seizures: A three-stage field-validation in rural Bolivia

Loretta Giuliano ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Loretta Giuliano, Calogero Edoardo Cicero

Affiliation Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies “G.F. Ingrassia”, Section of Neurosciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
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Calogero Edoardo Cicero ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Loretta Giuliano, Calogero Edoardo Cicero

Affiliation Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies “G.F. Ingrassia”, Section of Neurosciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
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Elizabeth Blanca Crespo Gómez,

Affiliation Hospital Universitario Hernández Vera, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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Sandra Padilla,

Affiliation Center of Anthropological Researches of the Teko Guaraní, Gutierrez, Bolivia
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Elisa Bruno,

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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Mario Camargo,

Affiliation The Bolivian League Against Epilepsy, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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Benoit Marin,

Affiliation INSERM, U1094, Tropical Neuroepidemiology, Limoges, France
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Vito Sofia,

Affiliation Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies “G.F. Ingrassia”, Section of Neurosciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
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Pierre-Marie Preux,

Affiliation INSERM, U1094, Tropical Neuroepidemiology, Limoges, France
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Marianne Strohmeyer,

Affiliation Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Infectious and Tropical Diseases Unit, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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Alessandro Bartoloni,

Affiliation Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Infectious and Tropical Diseases Unit, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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Alessandra Nicoletti

* E-mail: anicolet@unict.it

Affiliation Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies “G.F. Ingrassia”, Section of Neurosciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
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A screening questionnaire for convulsive seizures: A three-stage field-validation in rural Bolivia

Loretta Giuliano,
Calogero Edoardo Cicero,
Elizabeth Blanca Crespo Gómez,
Sandra Padilla,
Elisa Bruno,
Mario Camargo,
Benoit Marin,
Vito Sofia,
Pierre-Marie Preux,
Marianne Strohmeyer

Published: March 16, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0173945

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