نتایج جستجو برای: Onchocerciasis

تعداد نتایج: 1363  

Journal: :PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2009
Sébastien D. S. Pion Christoph Kaiser Fernand Boutros-Toni Amandine Cournil Melanie M. Taylor Stefanie E. O. Meredith Ansgar Stufe Ione Bertocchi Walter Kipp Pierre-Marie Preux Michel Boussinesq

OBJECTIVE We sought to evaluate the relationship between onchocerciasis prevalence and that of epilepsy using available data collected at community level. DESIGN We conducted a systematic review and meta-regression of available data. DATA SOURCES Electronic and paper records on subject area ever produced up to February 2008. REVIEW METHODS We searched for population-based studies reportin...

Journal: :Frontiers in tropical diseases 2022

Human Onchocerciasis, caused by infection the filarial nematode Onchocerca volvulus , is a neglected public health disease that affects millions of people in endemic regions sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. It also called river blindness because Blackflies transmit breeds rapidly flowing fresh water streams rivers. This review features state-of-the-art data on parasite, its endobacteria Wo...

2016
Nana O. Wilson Alioune Badara Ly Vitaliano A. Cama Paul T. Cantey Daniel Cohn Lamine Diawara Abdel Direny Mawo Fall Karla R. Feeser LeAnne M. Fox Achille Kabore Amadou F. Seck Ngayo Sy Daouda Ndiaye Christine Dubray

In Africa, onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis (LF) are co-endemic in many areas. Current efforts to eliminate both diseases are through ivermectin-based mass drug administration (MDA). Years of ivermectin distribution for onchocerciasis may have interrupted LF transmission in certain areas. The Kédougou region, Senegal, is co-endemic for LF and onchocerciasis. Though MDA for onchocerciasis...

Journal: :The Journal of infectious diseases 1999
A Ogunrinade D Boakye A Merriweather T R Unnasch

Onchocerciasis remains an important public health problem throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa. Nigeria is the country whose population is most afflicted by onchocerciasis; however, little is known concerning the epidemiology of onchocerciasis in this country. Previous studies demonstrated that onchocerciasis in West Africa exists in two forms, which differ in their clinical and epidemiologic ...

Journal: :Filaria Journal 2003
Yankum Dadzie Maria Neira Donald Hopkins

Sixty-four experts from a variety of disciplines attended a Conference on the Eradicability of Onchocerciasis at The Carter Center, in Atlanta GA, held January 22-24, 2002. The Conference, which was organized by The Carter Center and the World Health Organization, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, addressed the question: "Is onchocerciasis (River Blindness) eradicable with ...

2015
Hugo C. Turner Martin Walker Sara Lustigman David W. Taylor María-Gloria Basáñez Andrew Fenton

BACKGROUND Currently, the predominant onchocerciasis control strategy in Africa is annual mass drug administration (MDA) with ivermectin. However, there is a consensus among the global health community, supported by mathematical modelling, that onchocerciasis in Africa will not be eliminated within proposed time frameworks in all endemic foci with only annual MDA, and novel and alternative stra...

Journal: :Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1996
R E Umeh C P Chijioke P O Okonkwo

In a forest-saving mosaic zone of south-eastern Nigeria endemic for onchocerciasis, we identified eye disorders in 65.5% of a randomly selected population sample. Onchocerciasis-related eye disease was present in 13.7% of the study sample and constituted 21% of the total number of eye disorders. A total of 78 (33.2%) of 235 subjects with visual impairment had onchocerciasis-related eye lesions,...

2015
Grace Fobi Laurent Yameogo Mounkaila Noma Yaovi Aholou Joseph B. Koroma Honorat M. Zouré Tony Ukety Paul-Samson Lusamba-Dikassa Chris Mwikisa Daniel A. Boakye Jean-Baptist Roungou

Due to the socioeconomic impact of human onchocerciasis (commonly referred to as river blindness) in West Africa, the Onchocerciasis Control Programme in the Volta River Basin (OCP) was instituted [1]. This initial programme started in 1975 and covered seven West African countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Niger, and Togo. However, later evidence indicated that endemic a...

2015
Hiroyuki Takaoka Takeshi Suzuki

Recent studies on the epidemiology and control of Guatemalan onchocerciasis, chiefly made by the Guatemala-Japan Cooperative Project on Onchocerciasis Research and Control, are reviewed. Epidemiological features of Guatemalan onchocerciasis are summarized as to characteristic altitudinal distribution of endemic areas, disease manifestation, vector taxonomy, biology and transmission dynamic of t...

Journal: :Filaria Journal 2006
Mary M Alleman Nana AY Twum-Danso Björn I Thylefors

Through the Mectizan Donation Program, Merck & Co., Inc. has donated Mectizan (ivermectin, MSD) for the treatment of onchocerciasis worldwide since 1987. Mectizan has also been donated for the elimination of lymphatic filariasis (LF) since 1998 in African countries and in Yemen where onchocerciasis and LF are co-endemic; for LF elimination programs, Mectizan is co-administered with albendazole,...

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