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The global distribution of lymphatic filariasis, 2000–18: a geospatial analysis

open access: yesThe Lancet Global Health, 2020
Summary: Background: Lymphatic filariasis is a neglected tropical disease that can cause permanent disability through disruption of the lymphatic system. This disease is caused by parasitic filarial worms that are transmitted by mosquitos.
Aniruddha Deshpande   +668 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Tetracycline Resistance Pattern Among Lymphatic Filariasis-Hyperendemic Communities in Southern Ghana: A Mixed-Method Approach. [PDF]

open access: yesHealth Sci Rep
ABSTRACT Background and Aim Tetracyclines continue to serve as a cost‐effective and essential treatment for common infections, particularly in resource‐limited regions such as lymphatic filariasis (LF)‐hyperendemic communities. The growing use of tetracycline‐based antibiotics by symptomatic filarial lymphedema patients, likely influenced by the ...
Osei-Poku P   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Development of Conventional Multiplex PCR: A Rapid Technique for Simultaneous Detection of Soil-Transmitted Helminths

open access: yesPathogens, 2019
Soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) are the most common intestinal parasites infecting humans worldwide. STH infections are a major cause of morbidity and disability.
Vivornpun Sanprasert   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Challenges in mass drug administration for treating lymphatic filariasis in Papua, Indonesia. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
: BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Program to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis relies on mass drug administration (MDA) of two drugs annually for 4 to 6 years.
Bhullar, Navneet, Maikere, Jacob
core   +3 more sources

The Genetic Polymorphisms of 24 Base Pair Duplication and Point G102S of Human Chitotriosidase to Bancroftian Filariasis at the Thai–Myanmar Border

open access: yesPathogens, 2019
Lymphatic filariasis, caused by lymphatic filarial parasites, Wuchereria bancrofti, and Brugia malayi, causes significant morbidity and disability to 120 million people in the tropics and subtropics.
Vivornpun Sanprasert   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Simple Genotyping Method for Rapid Differentiation of Blastocystis Subtypes and Subtype Distribution of Blastocystis spp. in Thailand

open access: yesPathogens, 2019
Blastocystis spp. is one of the most common protozoa of humans and animals worldwide. The genetic diversity of Blastocystis spp. might be associated with a wide range of symptoms.
Nittaya Srichaipon   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Upon entering an age of global ivermectin-based integrated mass drug administration for neglected tropical diseases and malaria

open access: yesMalaria Journal, 2017
Ivermectin mass drug administration (MDA) in humans to reduce malaria vectors is yet another use for this remarkable medicine whose discoverers shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine with the discoverer of artemisinin.
Frank O. Richards
doaj   +1 more source

Mass Drug Administration and beyond: how can we strengthen health systems to deliver complex interventions to eliminate neglected tropical diseases? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Achieving the 2020 goals for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) requires scale-up of Mass Drug Administration (MDA) which will require long-term commitment of national and global financing partners, strengthening national capacity and, at the community ...
Adams, ER   +10 more
core   +1 more source

Change in Composition of the Anopheles Gambiae Complex and its Possible Implications for the Transmission of Malaria and Lymphatic Filariasis in North-Eastern Tanzania. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
A dramatic decline in the incidence of malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum infection in coastal East Africa has recently been reported to be paralleled (or even preceded) by an equally dramatic decline in malaria vector density, despite absence of ...
A Mahande   +52 more
core   +4 more sources

The first report of Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus in Haiti

open access: yesMemorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2012
Aedes albopictus was found in six of the 10 departments of Haiti and in 14 of the 35 communes surveyed. The survey found the larvae of Ae. albopictus in 13 different types of containers. Used tires and tins were by far the most common breeding sites used
María del Marquetti Fernández   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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