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Certifying Guinea worm eradication: current challenges [PDF]

The Lancet, 2020
Molyneux, David H, Eberhard, Mark L, Cleaveland, Sarah, Addey, Regina, Guiguemdé, Robert Tinga, Kumar, Ashok, Magnussen, Pascal, Breman, Joel G   +7 more
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Certifying Guinea worm eradication in humans and animals. [PDF]

Lancet, 2021
Hopkins DR, Ijaz K, Weiss AJ, Roy SL.
europepmc   +2 more sources

A mathematical study to control Guinea worm disease: a case study on Chad

Journal of Biological Dynamics, 2018
Global eradication of Guinea worm disease (GWD) is in the final stage but a mysterious epidemic of the parasite in dog population makes the elimination programme challenging.
Indrajit Ghosh, Pankaj Kumar Tiwari, Sandip Mandal, Maia Martcheva, Joydev Chattopadhyay   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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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How effective is integrated vector management against malaria and lymphatic filariasis where the diseases are transmitted by the same vector? [PDF]

, 2014
The opportunity to integrate vector management across multiple vector-borne diseases is particularly plausible for malaria and lymphatic filariasis (LF) control where both diseases are transmitted by the same vector.
Chitnis, Nakul, Lindsay, Steve W., Stone, Christopher M.   +2 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
doaj   +3 more sources

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
openaire   +5 more sources

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
doaj   +1 more source