Protection or susceptibility to devastating childhood epilepsy: Nodding Syndrome associates with immunogenetic fingerprints in the HLA binding groove.

• Main Authors: Gil Benedek (Author), Mahmoud Abed El Latif (Author), Keren Miller (Author), Mila Rivkin (Author), Ally Ahmed Ramadhan Lasu (Author), Lul P Riek (Author), Richard Lako (Author), Shimon Edvardson (Author), Sagit-Arbel Alon (Author), Eithan Galun (Author), Mia Levite (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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Nodding syndrome (NS) is a devastating and enigmatic childhood epilepsy. NS is accompanied by multiple neurological impairments and neuroinflammation, and associated with the parasite Onchocerca volvulus (Ov) and other environmental factors. Moreover, NS seems to be an 'Autoimmune Epilepsy'...