PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | onchocerciasis |
| Phenotype | C0014544|epilepsy |
| Sentences | 3 |
| PubMedID- PMC3810937 | Bizarre behavior, whether frantic or somnolent, is caused by a growing procession of ailments, among them rabies, nodding syndrome, unexplained epidemic epilepsy associated with onchocerciasis, diphtheric polyneuropathy, acute flaccid paralysis, brucellosis, encephalitis, or various fevers of unknown origin. |
| PubMedID- 23383355 | Further, epilepsy may be associated with onchocerciasis, as suggested by a growing but still uncertain base of evidence [14]. |
| PubMedID- 23965548 | The possible role of onchocerciasis in epilepsy is an issue of ongoing debate (33–36), but the organism is not believed to be neuroinvasive, and negative pcr results for 64 csf specimens from tanzania and south sudan further substantiates this suggestion. |
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