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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Development and validation of a quantitative PCR for the detection of Guinea worm (Dracunculus medinensis). [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2022 Dracunculus medinensis (Guinea worm) is a parasitic nematode that can cause the debilitating disease dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease) in humans. The global Guinea Worm Eradication Program has led intervention and eradication efforts since the 1980s ...
Sarah M Coker +7 more
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Patent landscape of neglected tropical diseases: an analysis of worldwide patent families [PDF]
Globalization and Health, 2017 Background “Neglected Tropical Diseases” (NTDs) affect millions of people in Africa, Asia and South America. The two primary ways of strategic interventions are “preventive chemotherapy and transmission control” (PCT), and “innovative and intensified ...
Folahanmi Tomiwa Akinsolu +3 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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Progress Toward Global Dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm Disease) Eradication, January 2023–June 2024 [PDF]
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly ReportSarah G H Sapp
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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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A research and development agenda for the control and elimination of human helminthiases [PDF]
, 2012 BACKGROUND: Increasing volumes of data and computational capacity afford unprecedented opportunities to scale up infectious disease (ID) mapping for public health uses.
Utzinger, J.
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