Estimation of the burden of active and life-time epilepsy: a meta-analytic approach.

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Published in Epilepsia on January 07, 2010

Authors

Anthony K Ngugi1, Christian Bottomley, Immo Kleinschmidt, Josemir W Sander, Charles R Newton

Author Affiliations

1: The Centre for Geographic Medicine Research-Coast, KEMRI, Kilifi, Kenya. angugi@kilifi.kemri-wellcome.org

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