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Prevalence of Mansonella ozzardi among riverine communities in the municipality of Lábrea, State of Amazonas, Brazil Prevalências de Mansonella ozzardi entre comunidades ribeirinhas do município de Lábrea, Estado do Amazonas

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2011
INTRODUCTION: Estimate the prevalence of Mansonella ozzardi infection and calculate the parasitic infection rate (PIR) in simuliid black flies in the municipality of Lábrea, State of Amazonas, Brazil.
Jansen Fernandes Medeiros, Victor Py-Daniel, Ulysses Carvalho Barbosa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mansonella ozzardi mitogenome and pseudogene characterisation provides new perspectives on filarial parasite systematics and CO-1 barcoding. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2018
Despite the broad distribution of M. ozzardi in Latin America and the Caribbean, there is still very little DNA sequence data available to study this neglected parasite’s epidemiology.
Crainey JL, Marín MA, Silva TRRD, de Medeiros JF, Pessoa FAC, Santos YV, Vicente ACP, Luz SLB.   +7 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Investigação da ocorrência da Mansonella ozzardi no Estado de Rondônia, Amazônia Ocidental [PDF]

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2011
INTRODUÇÃO: Mansonella ozzardi é uma filária humana que tem como vetor dípteros simulídeos e é amplamente distribuída na Amazônia. Não há informações sobre a ocorrência de casos de mansonelose no Estado de Rondônia, e neste trabalho procurou-se ...
Sergio de Almeida Basano, Juliana de Souza Almeida Aranha Camargo, Luana Janaína de Souza Vera, Suzane Neves Velasques, Guilherme Maerschner Ogawa, Jansen Fernandes Medeiros, Gilberto Fontes, Luís Marcelo Aranha Camargo   +7 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Epidemiologic survey of Mansonella ozzardi in Corail, Haiti. [PDF]

Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2014
An epidemiologic (cross-sectional study) survey on 462 inhabitants in Corail, Haiti showed that 16.5% were infected with Mansonella ozzardi. This finding was determined from a single 20-μL sample of finger prick blood from each person. Among children, < 2% had a detectable microfilaremia.
Raccurt CP, Brasseur P, Cicéron M, Boncy J.   +3 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

Mansonelosis por mansonella ozzardi en voluntarios para despistaje de malaria en la amazonía peruana

Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública
Objetivos. Determinar la frecuencia, manifestaciones clínicas y factores asociados a la infección por Mansonella ozzardi en voluntarios de una campaña de despistaje de malaria en el distrito de Alto Nanay en la selva amazónica del Perú.
Javier Vargas, Nancy Arróspide, Sonia Gutiérrez, Cristian Obregón, Pedro Valencia, Henry Mormontoy   +5 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Atypical Mansonella ozzardi Microfilariae from an Endemic Area of Brazilian Amazonia. [PDF]

Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2016
Mansonellosis is endemic in several regions of Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Mansonella ozzardi and Mansonella perstans have been reported in Latin America, including the Amazon region.
Ta-Tang TH, Luz SL, Merino FJ, de Fuentes I, López-Vélez R, Almeida TA, Lanza M, Abrahim CM, Rubio JM.   +8 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Prevalencia y factores asociados con la filariosis por Mansonella ozzardi en 2 comunidades periurbanas de Iquitos, 2009 [PDF]

Infectio, 2015
Introducción: Tres casos de infección por Mansonella ozzardi (M. ozzardi) en muestras de malaria que provenían de 2 comunidades periurbanas de Iquitos (Perú) dieron la sospecha de transmisión local. El objetivo del estudio fue determinar la prevalencia y
Nancy Arróspide, Óscar Reyna, Juan José Montenegro-Idrogo, Miriam Palomino, Jorge Lucero, Pablo Villaseca, Walter León, Pedro Valencia, Percy Mayta-Tristán   +8 more
doaj   +2 more sources

MICROFILARIA Mansonella ozzardi

Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública, 2007
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Rito Zerpa, Alberto Chuquicaña
doaj   +2 more sources

Programmed cell death pathways as targets for developing antifilarial drugs: Lessons from the recent findings

Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Volume 27, Issue 19, Page 2819-2840, October 2023., 2023
Abstract More than half a century has passed since the introduction of the National Filariasis Control Program; however, as of 2023, lymphatic filariasis (LF) still prevails globally, particularly in the tropical and subtropical regions, posing a substantial challenge to the objective of worldwide elimination.
Nabarun Chandra Das, Pritha Chakraborty, Samapika Nandy, Abhijit Dey, Tabarak Malik, Suprabhat Mukherjee   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparison of surveillance trapping methods to monitor Culicoides biting midge activity in Trinidad, West Indies

Medical and Veterinary Entomology, Volume 36, Issue 4, Page 456-468, December 2022., 2022
Study on a dairy goat farm compared three static trap designs with (a) UV light; (b) incandescent light or (c) semiochemical lure (no light). Sweep netting was used to define diel periodicity. Trap designs A and C collected significantly greater number of Culicoides specimens than trap B; trap C gained highest species richness despite no significant ...
Tamiko Brown‐Joseph, Christopher A. L. Oura, Christine V. F. Carrington, Lara E. Harrup   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source