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Correction: Characteristics of people with epilepsy in three Eastern African countries – a pooled analysis

BMC Neurology volume 22, Article number: 499 (2022) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 26 August 2022

Correction: BMC Neurol 22, 321 (2022)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12883-022-02813-z

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors would like to update the Funding section.

The updated Funding is provided below and the changes have been highlighted in bold.

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Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. This study was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the research grant (WI 3427/1–1) “Neurocysticercosis in sub-Saharan Africa” and by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation within the research grant (1017886) “Integrated Control of Cysticercosis in sub-Saharan Africa”. Dominik Stelzle was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Grant 01KA2112B, within the Cysticercosis Network of Sub-Saharan Africa (CYSTINET-Africa). The funders had no role in the detailed study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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  1. Stelzle D, Kaducu J, Schmidt V, et al. Characteristics of people with epilepsy in three Eastern African countries – a pooled analysis. BMC Neurol. 2022;22:321. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12883-022-02813-z.

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  1. Center for Global Health, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Ismaninger Strasse 22, 81675, Munich, Germany

    Dominik Stelzle, Veronika Schmidt, Tamara M. Welte & Andrea S. Winkler

  2. Ministry of Health, Kampala, Republic of Uganda

    Joyce Kaducu

  3. Centre for Global Health, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Veronika Schmidt & Andrea S. Winkler

  4. Department of Neurology, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

    Tamara M. Welte

  5. National Institute for Medical Research, Muhimbili Medical Research Centre, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    Bernard J. Ngowi

  6. University of Dar Es Salaam, Mbeya College of Health and Allied Sciences, Mbeya, Tanzania

    Bernard J. Ngowi

  7. Department of Neurology, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    William Matuja

  8. Department of Neurology, Kliniken Ostallgaeu-Kaufbeuren, Kaufbeuren, Germany

    Gabrielle Escheu & Peter Hauke

  9. Department of Radiology, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

    Vivien Richter

  10. Department of Mental Health, University of Gulu, Gulu, Uganda

    Emilio Ovuga

  11. Department of Neurology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Bettina Pfausler & Erich Schmutzhard

  12. National Epilepsy Association Malawi, International Bureau of Epilepsy, Lilongwe, Malawi

    Action Amos

  13. Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Wendy Harrison

  14. Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Luise Keller

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Stelzle, D., Kaducu, J., Schmidt, V. et al. Correction: Characteristics of people with epilepsy in three Eastern African countries – a pooled analysis. BMC Neurol 22, 499 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12883-022-03034-0

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