of onchocerciasis are due to localized host inflammatory responses to dead or dying microfilariae (larvae). The signs and symptoms of onchocerciasis are...

Filaria that are spread by mosquitoes. Other types of filariasis are onchocerciasis also known as river blindness caused by onchocerca volvulus; Loa loa...

the Control of Onchocerciasis (APOC) and Oncho Elimination Programme for the Americas to greatly diminish the effect of onchocerciasis by donating ivermectin...

severe eye disease occurring in people affected by onchocerciasis, a filarial worm infection. Onchocerciasis had already been known for a long time, but until...

volvulus is a filarial (arthropod-borne) nematode (roundworm) that causes onchocerciasis (river blindness), and is the second-leading cause of blindness due...

in 1997, the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control reports a reduction in the prevalence of onchocerciasis in the countries under its mandate from...

to treat infestations including head lice, scabies, river blindness (onchocerciasis), strongyloidiasis, trichuriasis, ascariasis and lymphatic filariasis...

mission of eradicating onchocerciasis. Onchocerciasis is a neglected tropical disease. The primary strategy to control onchocerciasis is to interrupt the...

Retrieved 2016-01-21. "Onchocerciasis". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 2016-01-21. "Onchocerciasis". Lexico UK English Dictionary...

PMID 18927419. CDC Advisory Archived 2007-05-31 at the Wayback Machine "What is onchocerciasis?". CDC. Retrieved 2010-06-28. transmission is most intense in remote...

bathing and washing. Way: Raga River (200829470). Onchocerciasis control programme, p. 2. Onchocerciasis control programme (PDF), World Health Organization...

South East Asia. While in Africa, Ridley led important research into onchocerciasis when he was stationed in the Gold Coast, now Ghana, for part of his...

aid in the supporting 1.7 billion people affected by EDN's such as onchocerciasis (river blindness) and lymphatic filariasis (LF) across Ethiopia, Sudan...

of onchocerciasis, while having no effect on the microfilariae of L. loa. In a study done at five different co-endemic regions for onchocerciasis and...

eradicate Guinea worm disease, as well as controlling and treating onchocerciasis, trachoma, lymphatic filariasis, and malaria through awareness campaigns...

better inform decisions surrounding healthcare policy in the region. Onchocerciasis ("river blindness"), a common cause of blindness, is also endemic to...

surveillance of the neglected tropical diseases lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis, amongst others. Pilotte N, Unnasch TR, Williams SA (October 2017)....

in paralysis and death of the parasite. Moxidectin was approved for onchocerciasis (river-blindness) in 2018 for people over the age of 11 in the United...

and high HIV prevalence rates. Dengue, filariasis, leishmaniasis and onchocerciasis (river blindness) are other diseases carried by insects that also occur...

prevention of loiasis in those at high risk. While it has been used for onchocerciasis (river blindness), ivermectin is preferred. It is taken by mouth. Common...

brackets): Filariasis (Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi infection) Onchocerciasis (Onchocerca volvulus infection) Soil-transmitted helminthiasis – this...

Infections Trachoma Onchocerciasis...

infestation of eyelid in: leishmaniasis ( B55.-+ ) loiasis ( B74.3+ ) onchocerciasis ( B73+ ) phthiriasis ( B85.3+ ) (H03.1*) Involvement of eyelid in other...

and Onchocerciasis in the Rainforest of Nigeria: the Social Effects of Genital Complications among Woman as a coinvestigator;  National Onchocerciasis Control...

or mucous membrane pemphigoid Onchocerciasis Control Programme, a global effort to control the disease onchocerciasis Oral contraceptive pill, in birth...

Parasite-induced vector mortality is a form of negative density-dependence. The Onchocerciasis life cycle involves transmission via a black fly vector. In this life-cycle...

Infections Trachoma Onchocerciasis...

ivermectin for veterinary use in 1981, and later put it to human use against Onchocerciasis in 1987–88 with the name Mectizan; today the compound is used against...

costa is an acute phase of onchocerciasis characterized by swelling of the face with erythema and itching.: 440  Onchocerciasis causes different kinds of...

devastating human parasitic diseases, such as lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, loiasis, and other filariases. The taxonomy of nematodes in the order...