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Guinea Worm Disease: A Neglected Diseases on the Verge of Eradication [PDF]
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022 Background: Dracunculiasis, also known as Guinea worm disease (GWD), is a neglected tropical disease (NTD) caused by a parasite (Dracunculus medinensis).
Carmen Pellegrino +20 more
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Concurrent therapeutic and behavioral interventions are associated with a reduced number of emerging Dracunculus medinensis worms in dogs in Chad. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical DiseasesDracunculus medinensis (Guinea worm; GW) is a parasitic nematode that causes dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease; GWD). The annual incidence of GWD in humans has been reduced by over 99.9% globally since the 1980s thanks to the implementation of ...
Amy C Dupper +8 more
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The current status of neglected tropical diseases in Japan: A scoping review. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical DiseasesLittle attention has been paid to neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in high-income countries and no literature provides an overview of NTDs in Japan. This scoping review aims to synthesize the latest evidence and information to understand epidemiology ...
Yuriko Harada +8 more
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The Lancet Microbe, 2022 Summary: Background: Dracunculiasis (also known as Guinea worm disease), caused by the Dracunculus medinensis nematode, is progressing towards eradication, with a reduction in cases from 3·5 million cases in the mid-1980s to only 54 human cases at the ...
Sarah Anne J Guagliardo, PhD +14 more
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Solar distillation of impure water from four different water sources under the southwestern Nigerian climate [PDF]
Drinking Water Engineering and Science, 2021 The enormous problems caused by the scarcity of potable water and the transmission of waterborne diseases such as cholera, dracunculiasis, hepatitis, typhoid and filariasis in some parts of Nigeria have created a public health concern.
S. A. Adio +6 more
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Parasitosis of the vertebral canal mimicking lumbar intervertebral disc herniation: a case report
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2021 Study design Case report. Background It is a case of dracunculiasis of the spine mimicking lumbar intervertebral disc herniation. Case presentation A 57 year-old Caucasian male was admitted to the hospital because of the left L5 radiculopathy lasting for
Marcin Tyrakowski +3 more
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Canine Dracunculus Nematode Infection, Toledo, Spain
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020 A fragment of a Dracunculus-like worm was extracted from the hind limb of a 2-year-old dog from Toledo, Spain. Cytochrome oxidase I and rRNA sequences confirmed an autochthonous mammalian Dracunculus worm infection in Europe.
Irina Diekmann +10 more
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International Journal of Medical Students, 2023 Poliomyelitis is one of such diseases as measles and dracunculiasis that can be eradicated, because it meets the criteria for eradicable diseases: being infectious, having humans as major host, effective vaccines or treatment available for their control,
Samuel Amo-Tachie
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Ghana is Free from the Guinea Worm after a 33-Year Eradication Program [PDF]
Journal of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2021 For several generations, people from some parts of Ghana have suffered in the hands of a yard-long "spaghetti-thin" worm, known as Dracunculus medinensis, which infects humans and leads to a disease known as Dracunculiasis, literally meaning "afflictions
Langbong Bimi +2 more
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Un viaje de por vida en medicina tropical
Práctica Familiar Rural, 2020 Barnett Cline es Profesor Emerito de Tulane University y director de Medicina Tropical. Fue presidente de la Sociedad Americana de Medicina Tropical & Higiene.
Barnett Cline
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