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Linked surveillance and genetic data uncovers programmatically relevant geographic scale of Guinea worm transmission in Chad.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021
BackgroundGuinea worm (Dracunculus medinensis) was detected in Chad in 2010 after a supposed ten-year absence, posing a challenge to the global eradication effort. Initiation of a village-based surveillance system in 2012 revealed a substantial number of
Jessica V Ribado, Nancy J Li, Elizabeth Thiele, Hil Lyons, James A Cotton, Adam Weiss, Philippe Tchindebet Ouakou, Tchonfienet Moundai, Hubert Zirimwabagabo, Sarah Anne J Guagliardo, Guillaume Chabot-Couture, Joshua L Proctor   +11 more
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Comparative genomics of the major parasitic worms [PDF]

, 2018
Parasitic nematodes (roundworms) and platyhelminths (flatworms) cause debilitating chronic infections of humans and animals, decimate crop production and are a major impediment to socioeconomic development.
A Bairoch, A Chang, A Diaz, A Gaulton, A Harder, A Morgulis, A Prior, A Stamatakis, AA Rehman, AC Darby, AJ Vilella, AK Jones, AL Williamson, AL Williamson, AR Quinlan, AU Rao, AV Protasio, B Chevreux, B Wu, BJ Foth, BJ Haas, BW Li, C Cantacessi, C Casaravilla, C Claudel-Renard, C Dieterich, C Godel, C Holt, C Wu, C. elegans Sequencing Consortium., CA Desjardins, CH Opperman, CL Valentim, CM Taylor, CM Taylor, CW Dunn, D Ellinghaus, D Miranda-Saavedra, DP Knox, DR Laetsch, DR Zerbino, DS Zarlenga, E Courtot, E Ghedin, E Nagayasu, E Watson, EJ Pearce, F Ronquist, FA Kondrashov, G Coakley, G Cochrane, G Gremme, G Krautz-Peterson, G Parra, G Zhang, G.B.D. 2015 Disease and Injury Incidence and Prevalence Collaborators., GE Tusnady, H Gong, H Li, H Tobler, HM Bennett, I Korf, IJ Tsai, IJ Tsai, International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium., J Butler, J Castresana, J Charlier, J Pagel Van Zee, J Soding, J Srinivasan, J Wang, JA Cotton, JA Cotton, JA Rodrigues, JD Bendtsen, JD Hadfield, JH McKerrow, JJ Vermeire, JK Bonfield, JM Martin-Duran, JP Hewitson, JP Hewitson, JT Jones, JT Simpson, JT Simpson, K Howe, K Katoh, K MacDonald, KL Howe, KL Howe, L Anderson, L Kall, LF Furtado, LM Parsons, M Boetzer, M Boetzer, M Cancela, M Delcroix, M Hunt, M Kanehisa, M Lynch, M Margulies, M Mitreva, M Nei, M Shapira, M Srivastava, M Srivastava, M Stanke, MD Adams, MF Rey-Burusco, MG Grabherr, MK Cathcart, MM Albarqi, MN Price, MR Crusoe, MR Esteban, MR Martzen, MS Duffy, ND Rawlings, ND Young, NG Ntalli, NH Putnam, O Simakov, P Jones, PD Karp, PH Schiffer, R Caspi, R Hoeven van der, R Laing, R Real, R Santos, R She, R Tyagi, R Tyagi, R Wehrens, RC Edgar, RD Finn, RM Kaplan, S Capella-Gutierrez, S Hunter, S Kumar, S Velankar, SF Altschul, SK Buxton, SM Robb, SN McNulty, SN McNulty, SS Hung, T Britton, T Kikuchi, T Lynagh, T Sterling, T Tatusova, TD Otto, TD Otto, The Schistosoma japonicum Genome Sequencing and Functional Analysis Consortium., V Lombard, V Ter-Hovhannisyan, V Vasiliou, VL Hunt, W Xue, X Wang, Y Moriya, Y Satou, YT Tang   +165 more
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Dermohypodermite révélant une filariose

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2015
Il s'agit d'un patient de peau noir admis au service des urgences, pour une dermohypodermite du membre inferieur droit. Le traitement initial à base d'amoxilline protéger n'a pas donné de résultat efficace.
Redouane Ouakrim, Mohamed Saleh Berrada
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Parasitic contamination of water sources in Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria

Journal of Basic and Applied Zoology, 2020
Background Availability of good water source is essential to every community in other to allay the risk of water-borne infection and diseases. In this study, the isolation of parasites and rate of parasitic contamination from different water sources were
I. A. Simon-Oke, O. J. Afolabi, E. T. Obimakinde   +2 more
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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, Francis Anto, Ato Kwamena Tetteh   +2 more
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Reconstitution of an N-AChR from Brugia malayi, an evolved change in acetylcholine receptor accessory protein requirements in filarial parasites.

PLoS Pathogens, 2022
Neurotransmission is an important target for anthelmintic drugs, where receptor characteristics and response can be examined through reconstitution ex vivo in Xenopus laevis oocytes.
Jennifer D Noonan, Robin N Beech
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The significance of guinea worm infection in the immunological diagnosis of onchocerciasis and bancroftian filariasis [PDF]

, 2017
Infections with Dracunculus medinensis frequently occur in the same geographical area as infections with Onchocerca volvulus and Wuchereria bancrofti. This study analysed the significance of D. medinensis infections for the specificity and sensitivity of
Bloch, Paul, Nutman, Thomas B., Simonsen, Paul E., Weiss, Niclaus   +3 more
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Studies on the Epidemiology of Dracunculiasis in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Nigeria [PDF]

, 2009
Between April 1999 and March 2000 an epidemiological survey was conducted for prevalence and distribution of dracunculiasis in fifteen communities in Ikwo Local government area of Ebonyi State, Nigeria.
Amadi, ANC, Anosike, JC, Iwuala, Moe
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Evaluation of DNA Extraction Methods on Individual Helminth Egg and Larval Stages for Whole-Genome Sequencing

Frontiers in Genetics, 2019
Whole-genome sequencing is being rapidly applied to the study of helminth genomes, including de novo genome assembly, population genetics, and diagnostic applications.
Stephen R. Doyle, Geetha Sankaranarayanan, Fiona Allan, Duncan Berger, Pablo D. Jimenez Castro, Pablo D. Jimenez Castro, James Bryant Collins, Thomas Crellen, Thomas Crellen, María A. Duque-Correa, Peter Ellis, Tegegn G. Jaleta, Roz Laing, Kirsty Maitland, Catherine McCarthy, Tchonfienet Moundai, Ben Softley, Elizabeth Thiele, Philippe Tchindebet Ouakou, John Vianney Tushabe, John Vianney Tushabe, Joanne P. Webster, Adam J. Weiss, James Lok, Eileen Devaney, Ray M. Kaplan, James A. Cotton, Matthew Berriman, Nancy Holroyd   +28 more
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Transcriptomic analysis of Ascaris suum larvae during their hepatopulmonary migration [PDF]

, 2012
Common roundworms are important intestinal nematodes of man (Ascaris lumbricoides) and pig (Ascaris suum). During the first stages of the infection, the larvae of these parasites undergo a hepatopulmonary migration.
Gasser, Robin, Geldhof, Peter, Jex, Aaron, Vlaminck, Johnny, Wang, Tao   +4 more
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