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Prevalence of neurodegenerative parkinsonism in an isolated population in south-eastern Moravia, Czech Republic

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The authors are grateful to Jan Pavlik, MD, native of Kuzelov, Hornacko researcher and writer, for his substantial contribution to the manuscript by providing ethnographic data and references, and to Petr Micka, MSc., for his overview of the ethnographic data. The study was supported by the grants IGA MZ CR NT—14407-3/2013 and IGA LF UP—2012–005 and 2013–24, and by the Ministry of Health, Czech Republic, conceptual development of research organization—Nr.1RVO-FNOL2013.

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  1. Department of Neurology, Palacky University Medical School, University Hospital Olomouc, I. P. Pavlova 6, 77520, Olomouc, Czech Republic

    Katerina Mensikova, Petr Kanovsky, Michaela Kaiserova, Lenka Mikulicova, Miroslav Vastik & Petr Hlustik

  2. Neurology Outpatient Clinic, Veseli nad Moravou, Czech Republic

    Petr Jugas

  3. Lipov, Czech Republic

    Josef Ovecka

  4. Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Palacky University Medical School, Olomouc, Czech Republic

    Vladimír Janout

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Mensikova, K., Kanovsky, P., Kaiserova, M. et al. Prevalence of neurodegenerative parkinsonism in an isolated population in south-eastern Moravia, Czech Republic. Eur J Epidemiol 28, 833–836 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-013-9823-x

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