We agree that the etiology of Nodding syndrome is unknown. Whether rubeola virus underlies
this disease, as we hypothesize, can be determined definitively with the appropriate
immunocytochemical assay of brain tissue. An urgent call for such studies was made
at the 2015 International Conference on Nodding Syndrome [
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Publication history
Published online: October 13, 2016
Accepted:
October 7,
2016
Received:
October 4,
2016
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