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Epidemiological and molecular investigations of a point-source outbreak of Dracunculus medinensis infecting humans and dogs in Chad: a cross-sectional study

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, Elizabeth Thiele, PhD, Karmen Unterwegner, MPH, Ndoyengar Narcisse Nanguita, MPH, Laurès Dossou, MPH, Philip Tchindebet Ouakou, MD, Hubert Zirimwabagabo, MD, Ernesto Ruiz-Tiben, PhD, Donald R Hopkins, MD, Sharon L Roy, MD, Vitaliano Cama, DVM, Henry Bishop, BS, Sarah Sapp, PhD, Sarah Yerian, MPH, Adam J Weiss, MPH   +14 more
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A new species of New Guinea Worm-Eating Snake (Serpentes, Elapidae, Toxicocalamus Boulenger, 1896) from Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea [PDF]

Zoosystematics and Evolution, 2022
We describe a new species of New Guinea Worm-Eating Snake (Elapidae: Toxicocalamus) from a specimen in the reptile collection of the Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery. Toxicocalamus longhagen sp. nov. can be easily distinguished from other
Jackson R. Roberts, Bulisa Iova, Christopher C. Austin   +2 more
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Human infection with an unknown species of Dracunculus in Vietnam

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021
Guinea worm (GW) disease, caused by Dracunculus medinensis, is an almost eradicated waterborne zoonotic disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) currently lists GW as endemic in only five African countries.
Pham Ngoc Thach, H. Rogier van Doorn, Henry S. Bishop, Mark S. Fox, Sarah G.H. Sapp, Vitaliano A. Cama, Le Van Duyet   +6 more
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Population genomic evidence that human and animal infections in Africa come from the same populations of Dracunculus medinensis.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2020
BackgroundGuinea worm-Dracunculus medinensis-was historically one of the major parasites of humans and has been known since antiquity. Now, Guinea worm is on the brink of eradication, as efforts to interrupt transmission have reduced the annual burden of
Caroline Durrant, Elizabeth A Thiele, Nancy Holroyd, Stephen R Doyle, Guillaume Sallé, Alan Tracey, Geetha Sankaranarayanan, Magda E Lotkowska, Hayley M Bennett, Thomas Huckvale, Zahra Abdellah, Ouakou Tchindebet, Mesfin Wossen, Makoy Samuel Yibi Logora, Cheick Oumar Coulibaly, Adam Weiss, Albrecht I Schulte-Hostedde, Jeremy M Foster, Christopher A Cleveland, Michael J Yabsley, Ernesto Ruiz-Tiben, Matthew Berriman, Mark L Eberhard, James A Cotton   +23 more
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Dogs and Guinea worm eradication [PDF]

The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2016
After 30 years of control campaigns, guinea worm faces eradication. However, dogs are expected to thwart the eradication of dracunculiasis as they act as alternative hosts of the worm. The health community un doubtedly have to recognise the success of the Guinea Worm Eradication Program (GWEP), although some flaws cannot be overlooked.
Mark L, Eberhard, Ernesto, Ruiz-Tiben, Donald R, Hopkins   +2 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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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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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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Modeling the Effects of Spatial Heterogeneity and Seasonality on Guinea Worm Disease Transmission

Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2018
Guinea worm disease is one of the neglected tropical diseases that is on the verge of elimination. Currently the disease is endemic in four countries, namely, Ethiopia, Mali, Chad, and South Sudan. Prior studies have demonstrated that climate factors and
Anthony A. E. Losio, Steady Mushayabasa
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Not every worm wrapped around a stick is a guinea worm: a case of Onchocerca volvulus mimicking Dracunculus medinensis

Parasites & Vectors, 2015
Background Despite being certified guinea worm free in 2007, Cameroon continues surveillance efforts to ensure rapid verification of any suspected reoccurrence.
Eta Ngole Mbong, Gerald Etapelong Sume, Flaubert Danbe, Walter Kang Kum, Valeri Oben Mbi, André Arsène Bita Fouda, Peter Atem   +6 more
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