Gates Open Research, 2018 Background: The objective of this study was to document the worldwide decline of dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease, GWD) burden, expressed as disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), from 1990 to 2016, as estimated in the Global Burden of Disease study ...
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Progress Toward Eradication of Dracunculiasis - Worldwide, January 2022-June 2023. [PDF]
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep, 2023 The effort to eradicate Dracunculus medinensis, the etiologic agent of dracunculiasis, or Guinea worm disease, commenced at CDC in 1980. In 1986, with an estimated 3.5 million cases worldwide in 20 African and Asian countries, the World Health Assembly ...
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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 ...
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The current state of knowledge on dracunculiasis: a narrative review of a rare neglected disease. [PDF]
Infez Med, 2023 Dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm Disease) is a chronic disease that is primarily found in the arid and poor areas of our planet where water supply systems consist of open wells.
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Dracunculiasis over the centuries: the history of a parasite unfamiliar to the West. [PDF]
Infez Med, 2023 Dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm Disease) is a terrible disease limited, even historically, to the arid and poor areas of our planet and which in the West has always been seen as an exotic disease and therefore has never taken root in the collective ...
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Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease), a parasitic infection: epidemiology, life cycle, prevention, treatment, and challenges - correspondence. [PDF]
Ann Med Surg (Lond), 2023 The nematode Dracunculus medinensis , sometimes known as the guinea worm, is the source of the infection known as dracunculiasis. The fi lariae Wuchereria bancrofti , Brugia malayi , and Loa loa are all members of the order Spirurida , a group of ...
Islam MR, Mir SA, Akash S, Dhama K.
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Dracunculiasis X in Vietnam: Emerging public health threat or exotic gem?
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021 Martin P. Grobusch, T. Hanscheid
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Progress Toward Global Dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm Disease) Eradication, January 2023-June 2024. [PDF]
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly RepThe effort to eradicate Dracunculus medinensis, the etiologic agent of dracunculiasis, or Guinea worm disease, began at CDC in 1980. In 1986, with an estimated 3.5 million global cases in 20 African and Asian countries, the World Health Assembly called ...
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Progress Toward Global Eradication of Dracunculiasis - Worldwide, January 2021-June 2022. [PDF]
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep, 2022 Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease), caused by the parasite Dracunculus medinensis, is acquired by drinking water containing small crustacean copepods (water fleas) infected with D. medinensis larvae.
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