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Modelling Neglected Tropical Diseases diagnostics: the sensitivity of skin snips for Onchocerca volvulus in near elimination and surveillance settings. [PDF]

, 2016
BACKGROUND: The African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control has proposed provisional thresholds for the prevalence of microfilariae in humans and of L3 larvae in blackflies, below which mass drug administration (MDA) with ivermectin can be stopped and ...
Attah, Simon K, Basáñez, Maria-Gloria, Bottomley, Christian, Isham, Valerie, Kuesel, Annette C, Lustigman, Sara, Opoku, Nicholas O, Vivas-Martínez, Sarai, Walker, Martin   +8 more
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Treatment of the microfilaraemia of asymptomatic brugian filariasis with single doses of ivermectin, diethylcarbamazine or albendazole, in various combinations [PDF]

, 1999
Several new chemotherapeutic tools are now available for the control of lymphatic filariasis. Combinations of single doses of antifilarial drugs are generally superior to single drugs.
Dalia, S, John, A, Kumaraswami, V, Shenoy, R K, Suma, T K   +4 more
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Density dependence and the control of helminth parasites.

, 2006
1. The transient dynamics and stability of a population are determined by the interplay between species density, its spatial distribution and the positive and negative density-dependent processes regulating population growth. 2.
Basáñez, María-Gloria, Churcher, Thomas S, Filipe, João AN   +2 more
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Vector control complements mass drug administration against bancroftian filariasis in Tirukoilur, India

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2007
OBJECTIVE: To determine the role of vector control in further decreasing the transmission of bancroftian filariasis achieved by mass drug administration and the long-term impact on filariometric indices.
IP Sunish, R Rajendran, TR Mani, A Munirathinam, AP Dash, BK Tyagi   +5 more
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Filariose linfática: doença potencialmente eliminável

Cadernos de Saúde Pública
Os resultados obtidos com o uso de esquemas terapêuticos simples, como dose única anual ou bianual de Ivermectina (IV), Dietilcarbamazina (DEC) sozinhas ou combinadas, têm sido surpreendentemente promissores na redução da infecção linfática causada pela ...
Gerusa Dreyer, Giovanini Coelho
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The Wolbachia Genome of Brugia malayi: Endosymbiont Evolution within a Human Pathogenic Nematode [PDF]

, 2005
Complete genome DNA sequence and analysis is presented for Wolbachia, the obligate alpha-proteobacterial endosymbiont required for fertility and survival of the human filarial parasitic nematode Brugia malayi. Although, quantitatively, the genome is even
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Acute tropical pulmonary eosinophilia: characterization of the lower respiratory tract inflammation and its response to therapy [PDF]

, 1987
Although acute tropical pulmonary eosinophilia (TPE) is well recognized as a manifestation of filarial infection, the processes that mediate the abnormalities of the lung in TPE are unknown.
Cornelius, Mary J, Crystal, Ronald G, Ferrans, V J, Kumaraswami, V, Nutman, T B, O'Donnell, Kathleen M, Ottesen, E A, Pinkston, Paula, Rom, William N, Takemura, T, Thiruvengadam, K V, Tripathy, S P, Vijayan, V K, Yenokida, Gordon   +13 more
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Yellapragada Subba Row: The Unsung Hero

Muller Journal of Medical Sciences and Research, 2013
A genius in more than one basic field, with many important discoveries/inventions such as folate, methotrexate, aureomycin, and diethylcarbamazine etc., The wonder drugs he created helped conquer many diseases considered incurable till then, and even ...
Priyanka Kamath, K Ashok Shenoy
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Analysis of age-dependent trends in Ov16 IgG4 seroprevalence to onchocerciasis [PDF]

, 2016
BACKGROUND: Diagnostics provide a means to measure progress toward disease elimination. Many countries in Africa are approaching elimination of onchocerciasis after successful implementation of mass drug administration programs as well as vector control.
Adade, Kangi, Banla, Meba, de los Santos, Tala, Domingo, Gonzalo J, Faulx, Dunia, Gantin, Richard G, Golden, Allison, Kalnoky, Michael, Karabou, Potochoziou, Komlan, Kossi, Peck, Roger, Rao, Ramakrishna, Soboslay, Peter T, Stevens, Eric, Yokobe, Lindsay   +14 more
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Pulmonary function in tropical eosinophilia before and after treatment with diethylcarbamazine. [PDF]

, 1975
M. S. Nesarajah
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