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Patients with nodding syndrome in Uganda improve with symptomatic treatment: a cross-sectional study

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  • Richard Idro Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Mulago Hospital/Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, UgandaNuffield Department of Medicine, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Hanifa Namusoke Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Mulago Hospital/Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Catherine Abbo Department of Psychiatry, Mulago Hospital/Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, UgandaDivision of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, University of Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Byamah B Mutamba Department of Psychiatry, Mulago Hospital/Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, UgandaButabika National Referral Hospital, Kampala, Uganda PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Angelina Kakooza-Mwesige Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Mulago Hospital/Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, UgandaAstrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Neuropediatric Research Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Robert O Opoka Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Mulago Hospital/Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Abdu K Musubire Department of Internal Medicine, Mulago Hospital/Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Amos D Mwaka Department of Internal Medicine, Mulago Hospital/Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Bernard T Opar Ministry of Health Headquarters, Kampala, Uganda PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Richard Idro; ridro1{at}gmail.com
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Idro R, Namusoke H, Abbo C, et al
Patients with nodding syndrome in Uganda improve with symptomatic treatment: a cross-sectional study
BMJ Open 2014;4:e006476. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006476

Publication history

  • Received August 28, 2014
  • Revised October 1, 2014
  • Accepted October 17, 2014
  • First published November 14, 2014.
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October 25, 2017
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