{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,14]],"date-time":"2026-08-14T14:33:21Z","timestamp":1786718001999,"version":"build-2736575974"},"reference-count":47,"publisher":"Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)","issue":"6","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Neurol India"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2016]]},"DOI":"10.4103\/0028-3886.193755","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,11,14]],"date-time":"2016-11-14T02:03:23Z","timestamp":1479089003000},"page":"1151","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Tropical ataxic neuropathy \u2013 A century old enigma"],"prefix":"10.4103","volume":"64","author":[{"given":"ArunB","family":"Taly","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"ArchanaB","family":"Netto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"ClareM","family":"Netto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Anita","family":"Mahadevan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"JB","family":"Agadi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"276","reference":[{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-1","first-page":"890","volume-title":"Poupard JA, Vernant, JC, Defreitas EC.Tropical Neuromyelopathies and Retroviruses","author":"Bucher","year":"1990","journal-title":"Rev Infect Dis"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-2","first-page":"861","volume-title":"Persisting nutritional neuropathy among former war prisoners","author":"Gill","year":"1982","journal-title":"J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-3","first-page":"1158","volume-title":"Tropical myeloneuropathies: The hidden endemias","author":"Roman","year":"1985","journal-title":"Neurology"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-4","first-page":"477","volume-title":"On a form of multiple neuritis prevalent in the West Indies","author":"Strachan","year":"1897","journal-title":"Practitioner"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-5","first-page":"109","volume-title":"An investigation into an acute break of 'central neuritis'","author":"Scott","year":"1918","journal-title":"Ann Trop Med Parasitol"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-6","first-page":"627","volume-title":"Deficiency diseases in Sierra Leone and pellagra","author":"Stannus","year":"1930","journal-title":"Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-7","first-page":"103","volume-title":"Some problems in riboflavin and allied deficiencies","author":"Stannus","year":"1944","journal-title":"Br Med J"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-8","first-page":"403","volume-title":"Presidents address on Tropical Neurology","author":"Spillaine","year":"1969","journal-title":"Proc Royal Soc Med"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-9","first-page":"3","volume-title":"Clinical aspects of tropical ataxic neuropathies related to malnutrition","author":"Money","year":"1959","journal-title":"West Afr Med J"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-10","first-page":"425","volume-title":"Clinical and pathological observations of Jamaican neuropathy","author":"Montgomery","year":"1964","journal-title":"Brain"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-11","first-page":"215","volume-title":"An ataxic neuropathy in Nigeria: A clinical biochemical and electrophysiological study","author":"Osuntokun","year":"1968","journal-title":"Brain"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-12","first-page":"141","volume-title":"Cassava diet chronic cyanide intoxication and neuropathy in the Nigerian Africans","author":"Osuntokun","year":"1981","journal-title":"World Nutr Diet"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-13","first-page":"96","volume-title":"Persistence of tropical ataxic neuropathy in a Nigerian community","author":"Oluwole","year":"2000","journal-title":"J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-14","first-page":"46","volume-title":"Partial loss of central acuity of vision for reading and distance in school-children and its possible association with food deficiency","author":"Moore","year":"1930","journal-title":"W Afr Med J"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-15","first-page":"31","volume-title":"Bichemical studies in Tanzanian patients with ataxic tropical neuropathy","author":"Makene","year":"1972","journal-title":"J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-16","first-page":"29","volume-title":"Neurochemical and Behavioural Correlates in Cassava-Induced Neurotoxicity in Rats","author":"Mathangi","year":"2000","journal-title":"Neurotox Res"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-17","first-page":"79","volume-title":"Neurological disorders associated with cassava diet: A review of putative etiological mechanism","author":"Adamolekun","year":"2011","journal-title":"Metab Brain Dis"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-18","first-page":"249","volume-title":"Tropical ataxic myelopathy","author":"Krishnaswamy","year":"1975","journal-title":"Trop Geogr Med"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-19","first-page":"1417","volume-title":"Incidence of endemic ataxic polyneuropathy and its relation to exposure to cyanide in a Nigerian community","author":"Oluwole","year":"2003","journal-title":"J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-20","first-page":"21","volume-title":"Clinical and etiological profile of topical ataxic neuropathy in Kerala, South India","author":"Madhusudhan","year":"2008","journal-title":"Eur Neurol"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-21","first-page":"316","volume-title":"Clinical epidemiological observations on an ataxic syndrome in Western Nigeria.Trop Geogr Med","author":"Monekosso","year":"1964","journal-title":""},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-22","first-page":"22","volume-title":"A biochemical evaluation of the state of nutrition in Nigeria","author":"Edozien","year":"1965","journal-title":"W Afr Sci Ass"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-23","first-page":"154","volume-title":"Vitamin B nutrition in the Nigeria topical ataxic neuropathy","author":"Osuntokun","year":"1985","journal-title":"J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-24","first-page":"199","volume-title":"Obscure neurologic disorders in Jamaica","author":"Cruickshank","year":"1961","journal-title":"World Neurol"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-25","first-page":"106","volume-title":"Changes in nerve conduction in experimental allergic neuritis","author":"Cragg","year":"1964","journal-title":"J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-26","first-page":"478","volume-title":"Diagnostic value of nerve biopsy for atypical chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy: Evaluation of eight cases","author":"Vallat","year":"2003","journal-title":"Muscle Nerve"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-27","first-page":"68","volume-title":"Epidemic neuropathy in Cuba: Morphological characterization of peripheral nerve lesions in sural nerve biopsies","author":"Borrajero","year":"1994","journal-title":"J Neurol Sci"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-28","first-page":"475","volume-title":"Peripheral neuropathy in tropical (nutritional) ataxia in Nigeria light and electron microscopic study","author":"Williams","year":"1969","journal-title":"Arch Neurol"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-29","first-page":"17","volume-title":"Thiamine deficiency and the etiology of tropical ataxic neuropathy","author":"Adamolekun","year":"2010","journal-title":"Int Health"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-30","first-page":"41","volume-title":"Geospatial association of endemicity of ataxic polyneuropathy and highly cyanogenic cassava cultivars","author":"Oluwole","year":"2013","journal-title":"Int J Health geogr"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-31","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Dhas PK, Chitra P, Jayakumar S, Mary AR. Study of the effects of hydrogen cyanide exposure in Cassava workers Indian J Occup Environ Med 2011;15:133-6.","DOI":"10.4103\/0019-5278.93204"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-32","first-page":"208","volume-title":"Cassava cyanogens and Konzo, an upper motor neuron disease found in Africa","author":"Tylleskar","year":"1992","journal-title":"Lancet"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-33","first-page":"1034","volume-title":"Low prevalence of ataxic polyneuropathy in a community with high exposure to cyanide from cassava foods","author":"Oluwole","year":"2002","journal-title":"J Neurol"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-34","unstructured":"Haddock DR. Neurological disorders in Ghana. In: Spillane JD, editor. Tropical Neurology. London: Oxford University Press; 1973. p. 207-22."},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-35","first-page":"1211","volume-title":"Association of high cyanide and low sulfur intake in cassava induced spastic paraparesis","author":"Cliff","year":"1985","journal-title":"Lancet"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-36","first-page":"563","volume-title":"A new unifying hypothesis for lathyrism, konzo and tropical ataxic neuropathy: Nitriles are the causative agents","author":"Llorens","year":"2011","journal-title":"Food Chem Toxicol"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-37","first-page":"199","volume-title":"The behavioral syndrome caused by 3,3\u2032-iminodipropionitrile and related nitriles in the rat is associated with degeneration of the vestibular sensory hair cells","author":"Llorens","year":"1993","journal-title":"Toxicol Appl Pharmacol"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-38","first-page":"152","volume-title":"The occurrence and correction of cobalt and copper deficiency affecting sheep in south Australia","author":"Lee","year":"1950","journal-title":"Aust Vet J"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-39","first-page":"307","volume-title":"Schistosomiasis in Nigeria","author":"Cowper","year":"1963","journal-title":"Ann Trop Med Parasitol"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-40","first-page":"71","volume-title":"Association of '(tropical) ataxic neuropathy' with HTLV-II","author":"Sheremata","year":"1993","journal-title":"Virus Res"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-41","first-page":"199","volume-title":"Enzymatic detoxification of cyanide: Clues from Pseudomonas aeruginosa Rhodanese","author":"Cipollone","year":"2008","journal-title":"J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-42","first-page":"663","volume-title":"Controlled trial of hydroxocobalamin and riboflavine in Nigerian ataxic neuropathy","author":"Osuntokun","year":"1970","journal-title":"J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-43","first-page":"102","volume-title":"Controlled trial of combinations of hydroxocobalamin-cystine and riboflavine-cystine, in Nigerian ataxic neuropathy","author":"Osuntokun","year":"1974","journal-title":"J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-44","first-page":"288","volume-title":"Subacute sensory ataxia and optic neuropathy with thiamine deficiency","author":"Spinazi","year":"2010","journal-title":"Nat Rev Neurol"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-45","first-page":"218","volume-title":"Hearing levels in Nigerian ataxic neuropathy","author":"Hinchcliffe","year":"1972","journal-title":"Audiology"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-46","first-page":"3572","volume-title":"Cassava: The Drought, War and Famine Crop in a Changing World","author":"Burns","year":"2010","journal-title":"Sustainability"},{"key":"key-10.4103\/0028-3886.193755-47","first-page":"117","volume-title":"Research and development in cassava production and ruminant nutrition in Nigeria: An overview","author":"Okaiyeto","year":"2006","journal-title":"J Engineering App Sci"}],"container-title":["Neurology India"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,14]],"date-time":"2026-08-14T13:30:07Z","timestamp":1786714207000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.ovid.com\/10.4103\/0028-3886.193755"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2016]]},"references-count":47,"journal-issue":{"issue":"6","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2016]]}},"alternative-id":["193755"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4103\/0028-3886.193755","relation":{},"ISSN":["0028-3886"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0028-3886","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2016]]}}}