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Loiasis (A case report)

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 1988
A case of Loiasis in a Nigerian male presenting in an unusual manner with two adult worms, one under-neath the conjunctiva of the left eye and another in subcutaneous tissue below the sternal end of the left clavicle, is reported This was associated with
Lakshmi N, Kumar Gururaj
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Comparison of different drug regimens for the treatment of loiasis-A TropNet retrospective study. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2018
BACKGROUND:Loa loa infection is endemic in limited areas of West-Central Africa. Loiasis has been associated with excess mortality, but clinical studies on its treatment are scant, particularly outside endemic areas, due to the rarity of cases diagnosed.
Federico Gobbi, Emmanuel Bottieau, Olivier Bouchaud, Dora Buonfrate, Fernando Salvador, Gerardo Rojo-Marcos, Paola Rodari, Jan Clerinx, Begoña Treviño, Juan Paulo Herrera-Ávila, Andreas Neumayr, Guido Calleri, Andrea Angheben, Camilla Rothe, Lorenzo Zammarchi, Massimo Guerriero, Zeno Bisoffi   +16 more
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The geographic distribution of Loa loa in Africa: results of large-scale implementation of the Rapid Assessment Procedure for Loiasis (RAPLOA).

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2011
BackgroundLoiasis is a major obstacle to ivermectin treatment for onchocerciasis control and lymphatic filariasis elimination in central Africa. In communities with a high level of loiasis endemicity, there is a significant risk of severe adverse ...
Honorat Gustave Marie Zouré, Samuel Wanji, Mounkaïla Noma, Uche Veronica Amazigo, Peter J Diggle, Afework Hailemariam Tekle, Jan H F Remme   +6 more
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A Case of Possible Loiasis Contracted in Cameroon and Diagnosed in Milan, Italy, and Review of Cases Published in Dermatological Journals

Case Reports in Dermatology, 2021
Loiasis is an infestation of the skin and eyes caused by the nematode Loa loa. We report a case of loiasis in a woman who contracted the infestation in Cameroon.
Luisa Lunardon, Maurizio Romagnuolo, Marco Cusini, Stefano Veraldi   +3 more
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The Population Biology and Transmission Dynamics of Loa loa [PDF]

, 2017
Endemic to Central Africa, loiasis – or African eye worm (caused by the filarial nematode Loa loa) – affects more than 10 million people. Despite causing ocular and systemic symptoms, it has typically been considered a benign condition, only of public ...
Basáñez, M-G, Boussinesq, M, Chesnais, C B, Pion, S D S, Walker, M, Whittaker, C   +5 more
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The role of eosinophil morphology in distinguishing between reactive eosinophilia and eosinophilia as a feature of a myeloid neoplasm

British Journal of Haematology, Volume 191, Issue 3, Page 497-504, November 2020., 2020
Summary Morphological features of eosinophils in patients with reactive eosinophilia (28 patients) and clonal eosinophilia (26 patients) have been compared with each other and with the eosinophil characteristics of healthy volunteers (three subjects) and of patients with the idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome (three patients). Morphological features,
Jean E. Goasguen, John M. Bennett, Barbara J. Bain, Richard Brunning, Gina Zini, Maria‐Teresa Vallespi, Masao Tomonaga, Clara Locher, The International Working Group on Morphology of MDS   +8 more
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Integrated xenosurveillance of Loa loa, Wuchereria bancrofti, Mansonella perstans and Plasmodium falciparum using mosquito carcasses and faeces: A pilot study in Cameroon.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2022
BackgroundCommunity presence of loiasis must be determined before mass drug administration programmes for lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis can be implemented.
Joseph Pryce, Nils Pilotte, Benjamin Menze, Allison R Sirois, Michael Zulch, Jean Pierre Agbor, Steven A Williams, Charles S Wondji, Lisa Reimer   +8 more
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Co-infection with Onchocerca volvulus and Loa loa microfilariae in central Cameroon: are these two species interacting? [PDF]

, 2006
Ivermectin treatment may induce severe adverse reactions in some individuals heavily infected with Loa loa. This hampers the implementation of mass ivermectin treatment against onchocerciasis in areas where Onchocerca volvulus and L.
Basáñez, M-G, Boussinesq, M, Clarke, P, Filipe, JAN, Gardon, J, Kamgno, J, Pion, SDS   +6 more
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Colorimetric and Real-Time Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) for Detection of Loa loa DNA in Human Blood Samples

Diagnostics, 2022
Loiasis, caused by the filarial nematode Loa loa, is endemic in Central and West Africa. Loa loa has been associated with severe adverse reactions in high Loa-infected individuals receiving ivermectin during mass drug administration programs for the ...
Begoña Febrer-Sendra, Pedro Fernández-Soto, Beatriz Crego-Vicente, Juan García-Bernalt Diego, Thuy-Huong Ta-Tang, Pedro Berzosa, Rufino Nguema, Policarpo Ncogo, María Romay-Barja, Zaida Herrador, Agustín Benito, Antonio Muro   +11 more
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Damping-off epidemics, contact structure, and disease transmission in mixed-species populations [PDF]

, 2005
In this paper we introduce a method to analyze the inter- and intraspecies transmission rates and contact structure between susceptible and infected plants in epidemics in mixed plant populations. Using spatiotemporal maps of damping-off epidemics caused
Filipe, JAN, Gilligan, CA, Otten, W
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