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Nigeria’s dracunculiasis eradication triumph and the need for caution

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2011
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Tokunbo B. Ojo, Kayode K Ojo
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Cooking copepods: The survival of cyclopoid copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda) in simulated provisioned water containers and implications for the Guinea Worm Eradication Program in Chad, Africa

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020
Introduction: The global Guinea Worm Eradication Program has reduced numbers of human infections of Guinea worm disease (dracunculiasis) to 49 cases in four countries.
Christopher A. Cleveland, Kayla B. Garrett, Erin K. Box, Zavier Eure, Ania A. Majewska, Jessica A. Wilson, Michael J. Yabsley   +6 more
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Copepod consumption by amphibians and fish with implications for transmission of Dracunculus species

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2021
Parasitic nematodes in the genus Dracunculus have a complex life cycle that requires more than one host species in both aquatic and terrestrial habitats.
Erin K. Box, Christopher A. Cleveland, Kayla B. Garrett, Ryan K. Grunert, Katherine Hutchins, Ania A. Majewska, Alec T. Thompson, Seth T. Wyckoff, Coles Ehlers, Michael J. Yabsley   +9 more
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Filariasis elimination, vector control and eradication challenges: Commentary on Webber, R. Eradication of Wuchereria bancrofti infection through vector control. Trans Roy Soc Trop Med and Hyg 1979;73:722-4. [PDF]

, 2018
The selection of this paper from 1979 in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene highlights significant issues in relation to neglected tropical disease (NTD) programmes, specifically the Global Programme to Eliminate ...
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Ecology of domestic dogs Canis familiaris as an emerging reservoir of Guinea worm Dracunculus medinensis infection.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2020
Global eradication of human Guinea worm disease (dracunculiasis) has been set back by the emergence of infections in animals, particularly domestic dogs Canis familiaris. The ecology and epidemiology of this reservoir is unknown.
Robbie A McDonald, Jared K Wilson-Aggarwal, George J F Swan, Cecily E D Goodwin, Tchonfienet Moundai, Dieudonné Sankara, Gautam Biswas, James A Zingeser   +7 more
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Integration of leprosy elimination into primary health care in orissa, India. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2009
BACKGROUND: Leprosy was eliminated as a public health problem (
M Ruby Siddiqui, Nageswara Rao Velidi, Surendra Pati, Nilambar Rath, Akshay K Kanungo, Amiya K Bhanjadeo, Bandaru Bhaskar Rao, Bijaya M Ojha, Kodyur Krishna Moorthy, Douglas Soutar, John D H Porter, Pemmaraju V Ranganadha Rao   +11 more
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Drinking Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Promotion Interventions in Two Slum Communities in Central Uganda

Journal of Environmental and Public Health, Volume 2018, Issue 1, 2018., 2018
Poor water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) continue to contribute to the high prevalence of diarrhoeal diseases in low‐income countries such as Uganda particularly in slums. We implemented a 3‐year WASH project in two urban slums in Uganda with a focus on safe drinking water and improvement in sanitation.
David Musoke, Rawlance Ndejjo, Abdullah Ali Halage, Simon Kasasa, John C. Ssempebwa, David O. Carpenter, Suminori Akiba   +6 more
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Slaying little dragons: the impact of the Guinea Worm Eradication Program on dracunculiasis disability averted from 1990 to 2016 [version 1; referees: 3 approved]

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 ...
Elizabeth A. Cromwell, Sharon Roy, Dieudonne P. Sankara, Adam Weiss, Jeffrey Stanaway, Ellen Goldberg, David M. Pigott, Heidi Larson, Stein Emil Vollset, Kristopher Krohn, Kyle Foreman, Peter Hotez, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Bayu Begashaw Bekele, Dumessa Edessa, Nicholas Kassembaum, Ali Mokdad, Christopher J. L. Murray, Simon I. Hay   +18 more
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Population genetic analysis of Chadian Guinea worms reveals that human and non-human hosts share common parasite populations. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2018
Following almost 10 years of no reported cases, Guinea worm disease (GWD or dracunculiasis) reemerged in Chad in 2010 with peculiar epidemiological patterns and unprecedented prevalence of infection among non-human hosts, particularly domestic dogs ...
Elizabeth A Thiele, Mark L Eberhard, James A Cotton, Caroline Durrant, Jeffrey Berg, Kelsey Hamm, Ernesto Ruiz-Tiben   +6 more
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Neglected tropical disease: Why we need to prioritize them more

Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2022
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are those that are commonly found in several low-income countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and where people do not have access to hygiene, clean water, or safe ways to dispose of human waste. NTDs comprise a
Ruby Dhar , Arun Kumar , Subhradip Karmakar   +2 more
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