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    Assembly called for dracunculiasis's eradication. Dracunculiasis remains endemic in three countries: Chad, Mali, and South Sudan. Dracunculiasis is a disease...
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    Eradication of dracunculiasis is an ongoing program. Dracunculiasis, or Guinea worm disease, is an infection by the Guinea worm. In 1986, there were an...
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    "Dracunculiasis Epidemiological Data (1989-2008)" (PDF). World Health Organization. Retrieved 14 September 2009. "Monthly report on dracunculiasis cases...
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    (Guinea worm, dragon worm, fiery serpent) is a nematode that causes dracunculiasis, also known as guinea worm disease. The disease is caused by the female...
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  • major parasitic disease that has been documented in early records is dracunculiasis. This disease is caused by the Guinea worm and is characterized by the...
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    neglected tropical diseases: ascariasis, Buruli ulcer, Chagas disease, dracunculiasis, hookworm infection, human African trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, leprosy...
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    duodenale infection) Trichostrongyliasis (Trichostrongylus spp. infection) Dracunculiasis (guinea worm infection) Baylisascaris (raccoon roundworm, may be transmitted...
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    sub-Saharan Africa". South Sudan is one of the few countries where dracunculiasis still occurs. At the time of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2005...
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    Average lifespan is about 3 months. Cyclops is intermediate host of dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease) and fish tapeworm (Diphyllobothrium latum) infection...
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    disease, endocarditis, and bacterial vaginosis. It is effective for dracunculiasis, giardiasis, trichomoniasis, and amebiasis. It is an option for a first...
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    waterborne Nematode infections, one important waterborne nematode disease is Dracunculiasis. It is acquired by swallowing water in which certain copepoda occur...
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    alongside the World Health Organization to the near-eradication of dracunculiasis, also called Guinea worm disease. The incidence of this disease has...
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    Camallanida Dracunculus medinensis Dracunculiasis Spirurida...
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  • examined 759 people and found that 156, or 20.6%, had Guinea worm lesions. Dracunculiasis, the parasitical infection by the Guinea worm, is caused by drinking...
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  • 2004. Archived from the original on 2013-12-09. Retrieved 2007-04-17. "Dracunculiasis". Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. 2005. Archived from the...
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  • Guinea in 1942. He died of illness, presumed[according to whom?] to be Dracunculiasis at Wewak in September 1943. "Biography of Lieutenant-General Heisuke...
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    established an independent International Commission for the Certification of Dracunculiasis Eradication (Guinea worm disease eradication; ICCDE).: 23  The ICCDE...
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    medinensis, or Guinea worm, a parasitic worm which causes the disease dracunculiasis, is now close to eradication thanks to efforts led by the Carter Center...
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    Camallanida Dracunculus medinensis Dracunculiasis Spirurida...
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    (2008) [First published 1981]. "Chapter 27: Guinea Worm Infection (Dracunculiasis)". The Imaging of Tropical Diseases: With Epidemiological, Pathological...
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    Camallanida Dracunculus medinensis Dracunculiasis Spirurida...
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    Camallanida Dracunculus medinensis Dracunculiasis Spirurida...
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    in the developing world. Specific parasites known to do this include dracunculiasis and myiasis. Surgery of an anal fistula to drain an abscess treats the...
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    Camallanida Dracunculus medinensis Dracunculiasis Spirurida...
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    Camallanida Dracunculus medinensis Dracunculiasis Spirurida...
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  • infectious diseases and identified six as potentially eradicable – dracunculiasis, poliomyelitis, mumps, rubella, lymphatic filariasis, and cysticercosis...
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    Camallanida Dracunculus medinensis Dracunculiasis Spirurida...
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    Buruli ulcer Campylobacter Cholera Cryptosporidiosis Cyclosporiasis Dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease) Escherichia coli Fascioliasis Giardiasis Hepatitis...
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  • Camallanida Dracunculus medinensis Dracunculiasis Spirurida...
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    Camallanida Dracunculus medinensis Dracunculiasis Spirurida...
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