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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.
Simonetti O, Zerbato V, Maurel C, Cosimi L, Babich S, Cavalli F, Di Bella S, Pavia D, Pesaresi C, Luzzati R.   +9 more
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Evaluating wildlife community composition around villages with varying Guinea worm (Dracunculus medinensis) transmission in Chad, Africa [PDF]

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife
Since 2012, Guinea worm (GW – Dracunculus medinensis) infections in animals have complicated the Guinea worm Eradication Program's (GWEP) goal to eradicate this parasite.
Avery L. Korns, Karmen Unterwegner, Adam J. Weiss, Philip Tchindebet Oaukou, Hubert Zirimwabagabo, Richard B. Chandler, Dana J. Morin, Michael J. Yabsley, Christopher A. Cleveland   +8 more
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Otterly diverse - A high diversity of Dracunculus species (Spirurida: Dracunculoidea) in North American river otters (Lontra canadensis) [PDF]

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife
The genus Dracunculus contains numerous species of subcutaneous parasites of mammals and reptiles. In North America, there are at least three mammal-infecting species of Dracunculus. Reports of Dracunculus infections have been reported from river otters (
Michael J. Yabsley, Kayla B. Garrett, Alec T. Thompson, Erin K. Box, Madeline R. Giner, Ellen Haynes, Heather Barron, Renata M. Schneider, Sarah M. Coker, James C. Beasley, Ernest J. Borchert, Renn Tumlison, Allison Surf, Casey G. Dukes, Colleen Olfenbuttel, Justin D. Brown, Liandrie Swanepoel, Christopher A. Cleveland   +17 more
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Assessing the performance of TRX and DUF148 antigens for detection of prepatent Guinea worm (Dracunculus medinensis) infection in dogs [PDF]

Frontiers in Parasitology
IntroductionGuinea worm (GW) is a nematode that causes a neglected tropical disease that is targeted for eradication. GW emergence in animals, particularly dogs, has hampered eradication efforts.
Hassan Hakimi, Hassan Hakimi, Pabasara Weerarathne, Meriam N. Saleh, Raquel R. Rech, Richard Ngandolo Bongo Nare, Philip Ouakou Tchindebet, Sidouin K. Metinou, Jessica M. van Loben Sels, Lucienne Tritten, Guilherme G. Verocai   +10 more
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Commentary: Dogs and the classic route of Guinea Worm transmission: an evaluation of copepod ingestion [PDF]

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020
Dracunculiasis was largely considered a parasitic disease exclusively affecting humans. That is why all the control measures taken, aimed at its global eradication, were exclusively applied to humans.
M. Teresa Galán-Puchades
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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 nevertaken root in the collective ...
Simonetti O, Zerbato V, Di Bella S, Luzzati R, Cavalli F.   +4 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Navigating the challenges in implementing financial incentives for behavior change at the intersection of human, animal, and ecosystem health: a case study [PDF]

Science in One Health
With the global expansion of financial incentives to promote behavior change, they are being considered in One Health contexts characterized by the interdependence of human, animal, and ecosystem health.
John M. Kerr, Maryann G. Delea, Minwoong Chung, Jinhua Zhao, Jesse Crawford, Maria Knight Lapinski   +5 more
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Radiological Detection of Dracunculus Medinensis. [PDF]

Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2018
Carranza-Rodríguez C, Pérez-Arellano JL.   +1 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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Seasonal change and phylogenetic position of <i>Kamegainema cingula</i> (Nematoda: Dracunculidae) parasitic in Japanese giant salamanders. [PDF]

Int J Parasitol Parasites Wildl
Kamegainema cingula (Linstow, 1902) (Nematoda: Dracunculidae) parasitizes subcutis of cryptobranchid salamanders in Japan and the U.S.A. Kamegainema is a monotypic genus including only K. cingula.
Tsuchida K, Urabe M, Nishikawa K.
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