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Epidemiological studies of Mansonella ozzardi (Nematoda, Onchocercidae) in indigenous communities of Pauini municipality, Amazonas, Brazil Estudos epidemiológicos da Mansonella ozzardi (Nematoda, Onchocercidae) em comunidades indígenas do município de Pauini, Amazonas, Brasil

Acta Amazonica, 2007
The Mansonella ozzardi has a widespread distribution among the indigenous and riverine communities of Amazonas, Brazil. We estimated the prevalence of Mansonella ozzardi in indigenous communities of the Pauini municipality, Amazonas state, Brazil and the
Jansen Fernandes Medeiros, Victor Py-Daniel, Ulysses Carvalho Barbosa, Emanuelle de Souza Farias   +3 more
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Loa loa Infection in Pregnant Women, Gabon [PDF]

, 2015
Loa loa, the African eye worm, is a filarial pathogen of Central African rainforest regions. As of 2013, it had affected an estimated 2–3 million persons in Central Africa (1,2).
Adegnika, Ayôla A., Basra, Arti, González, Raquel, Kremsner, Peter G., Lotsch, Felix, Mabika, Barthelemy, Mackanga, Jean Rodolphe, Manego, Rella Zoleko, Matsiegui, Pierre-Blaise, Menéndez, Clara, Mesküre Capan-Melse, Mombo-Ngoma, Ghyslain, Ramharter, Michael, Yazdanbakhsh, Maria   +13 more
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The establishment of a collaborative surveillance program with indigenous hunters to characterize primate health in Southern Guyana

American Journal of Primatology, Volume 86, Issue 6, June 2024.
Picture from a workshop conducted with Waiwai parabiologists (Left to right: Suse, Marawanaru, Shoni) and veterinarian (Milstein) to develop culturally appropriate sampling methodology. Parabiologists shared their thoughts on which tissues they could feasibly collect in ways that would not interfere with normal hunting and butchery practices. Here, the
Marissa S. Milstein, Christopher A. Shaffer, Phillip Suse, Elisha Marawanaru, Romel Shoni, Steven Suse, Bemner Issacs, Peter A. Larsen, Dominic A. Travis, Karen A. Terio, Tiffany M. Wolf   +10 more
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Mansonella ozzardi: a neglected New World filarial nematode [PDF]

Pathogens and Global Health, 2016
Mansonella ozzardi (Nematoda: Onchocercidae) is an understudied filarial nematode, originally described by Patrick Manson in 1897, that can be transmitted by two families of dipteran vectors, biting midges (most of them members of the genus Culicoides) and black flies (genus Simulium).
Lima, Nathália F., Veggiani Aybar, Cecilia Adriana, Dantur Juri, Maria Julia, Ferreira, Marcelo U.   +3 more
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Outstanding insecurities concerning the use of an Ov16-based ELISA in the Amazonia onchocerciasis focus

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2014
In a recent issue of Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, published in Rio de Janeiro in February 2014 (109: 87-92), Adami et al. have published a survey reporting Mansonella parasite prevalence in the Amazon Region.
Sérgio Luiz Bessa Luz, James Lee Crainey, Anthony John Shelley, Miguel Rubio   +3 more
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The epidemiology of gonorrhoea, chlamydial infection and syphilis in four African cities.

, 2001
OBJECTIVES: To compare the epidemiology of gonorrhoea, chlamydial infection and syphilis in four cities in sub-Saharan Africa; two with a high prevalence of HIV infection (Kisumu, Kenya and Ndola, Zambia), and two with a relatively low HIV prevalence ...
Anagonou, S, Buvé, A, Hayes, RJ, Kahindo, M, Laga, M, Morison, L, Musonda, R, Robinson, NJ, Study Group on Heterogeneity of HIV Epidemics in African Cities, Van Dyck, E, Weiss, HA, Zekeng, L   +11 more
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Current profile of Mansonella ozzardi (Nematoda: Onchocercidae) in communities along the Ituxi river, Lábrea municipality, Amazonas, Brazil

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2008
The objective of this paper was to describe the current status of Mansonella ozzardi prevalence among the inhabitants of 12 communities along the Ituxi river, in Lábrea municipality, state of Amazonas. The prevalence of M.
Jansen Fernandes Medeiros, Victor Py-Daniel, Ulysses Carvalho Barbosa, Guilherme Maerschner Ogawa   +3 more
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Verme subconjuntival da espécie Loa loa: primeiro caso no Brasil [PDF]

, 2012
We report the first case of ocular infestation by Loa loa in Brazil. Loiasis is caused by infestation with Loa loa, a filarial parasite originally found in the rainforests of western and central Africa.
Almeida, Juliana de Souza, Barbosa, Carolina Pelegrini, Camargo, Luis Marcelo Aranha, Ogawa, Guilherme Maerschner, Passos, Renato Magalhães   +4 more
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Filarial disease in the Brazilian Amazon and emerging opportunities for treatment and control

Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne Diseases
Following the successful eradication of Wuchereria bancrofti, there are now just three species of conventional microfilaremic human filarial parasites endemic to the Brazilian Amazon region: Mansonella ozzardi, Mansonella perstans and Onchocerca volvulus.
Cleudecir Siqueira Portela, Cláudia Patrícia Mendes de Araújo, Patrícia Moura Sousa, Carla Letícia Gomes Simão, João Carlos Silva de Oliveira, James Lee Crainey   +5 more
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Tratamiento com levamisol de la infeccion por Mansonella ozzardi

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1986
La administración de levamisol a la dosis para adultos, de 150 mg durante 2 a 3 meses, estuvo asociada la disminución y finalmente a la desaparición de microfilarias circulantes de Mansonella ozzardi. No se presentaron reacciones secundarias a la droga y
Marcos Restrepo, Nubla Ochoa
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