Prevalence of epilepsy and its potential association with Onchocerca volvulus and Mansonella perstans infection in the Adansi South District of Ghana: A pilot study. University of Antwerp
Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder, affecting about 50 million people worldwide with more than 80% of them living in developing countries. Besides the perinatal, traumatic, and metabolic causes of epilepsy, epidemiological associations have been established between epilepsy and several parasitic infections (malaria, neurocysticercosis, onchocerciasis, mansonellosis, etc.). The specific type of epilepsy caused by O. volvulus (known as ...