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Endemic mansonellosis in Emohua Local Government Area, Nigeria: human parasitaemia and Culicoides biting patterns [PDF]

Journal of Vector Borne Diseases, 2011
Background & objectives: The study was aimed at elucidating the prevalence and intensity of Mansonellaperstans microfilaraemia in the Emohua Local Government Area, Nigeria, and ascertaining the abundance,circadian, and the annual biting patterns of the ...
E.C. Uttah, S. Etim, C. Okonofua & O.E. Effiom
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Nodules in the conjunctiva, bung-eye, and bulge-eye in Africa caused by Mansonella perstans.

, 1988
Eight patients from Uganda, Sudan, Nigeria, and Zaire presented with swelling of the eyelids, proptosis, or conjunctival granulomas. In 5 patients the cause was Mansonella perstans; in 1, it was a Wuchereria bancrofti-like worm; and in 2, an ...
Baird, JK, Neafie, RC, Baird, John, Connor, DH   +3 more
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The design and development of a study protocol to investigate Onchocerca volvulus, Loa loa and Mansonella perstans-mediated modulation of the metabolic and immunological profile in lean and obese individuals in Cameroon. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2023
Lenz B, Andrew BA, Ritter M, Karunakaran I, Gandjui NVT, Nchang LC, Surendar J, Ebob AOB, Ehrens A, Klarmann-Schulz U, Ricchiuto A, Kuehlwein JM, Fombad FF, Ngwa AM, Katcho TD, Hoerauf A, Wanji S, Hübner MP.   +17 more
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Application of loop mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assays for the detection of <i>Onchocerca volvulus</i>, <i>Loa loa</i> and <i>Mansonella perstans</i> in humans and vectors. [PDF]

Front Trop Dis, 2023
Amambo GN, Innocentia N, Abong RA, Fombad FF, Njouendou AJ, Nietcho F, Ekanya R, Kien CA, Ebai R, Lenz B, Ritter M, Esum ME, Deribe K, Cho JF, Beng AA, Enyong PI, Li Z, Hübner MP, Pfarr K, Hoerauf A, Carlow C, Wanji S.   +21 more
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Poverty, life events and the risk for depression in Uganda.

, 2009
BACKGROUND: Understanding the determinants of major depression in sub-Saharan Africa is important for planning effective intervention strategies. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the social and life-event determinants of major depressive disorder in the African
Vikram Patel, Joshua Tugumisirize, Eugene Kinyanda, Ndyanabangi, Sheila, Patel, Vikram, Kagugube, Johnson, Patrick Woodburn, Woodburn, Patrick, Sheila Ndyanabangi, Kinyanda, Eugene, Tugumisirize, Joshua, Johnson Kagugube   +11 more
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Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequence of Mansonella perstans. [PDF]

Microbiol Resour Announc, 2020
Chung M, Aluvathingal J, Bromley RE, Nadendla S, Fombad FF, Kien CA, Gandjui NVT, Njouendou AJ, Ritter M, Sadzewicz L, Tallon LJ, Wanji S, Hoerauf A, Pfarr K, Dunning Hotopp JC.   +14 more
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In vitro maintenance of Mansonella perstans microfilariae and its relevance for drug screening

, 2019
Background: Mansonellosis arises from infections with threadlike filarial nematodes in millions of individuals, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Since infections present no overt clinical symptoms but attenuate immune responses that might lead to ...
Turner, Joseph, Esum, Mathias E., Fombad, Fanny Fri, Wanji, Samuel, Gandjui, Narcisse Victor T., Kien, Chi Anizette, Njiokou, Flobert, Njouendou, Abdel Jelil, Pfarr, Kenneth, Hoerauf, Achim, Enyong, Peter, Layland, Laura E., Ritter, Manuel, Chounna Ndongmo, Winston Patrick   +13 more
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Dataset on <i>in vitro</i> maintenance of <i>Mansonella perstans</i> microfilariae and drug testing. [PDF]

Data Brief, 2020
Njouendou AJ, Ritter M, Kien CA, Esum ME, Ndongmo WPC, Fombad FF, Gandjui NVT, Njiokou F, Enyong P, Pfarr K, Turner J, Layland LE, Hoerauf A, Wanji S.   +13 more
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Detection of DNA of filariae closely related to Mansonella perstans in faecal samples from wild non-human primates from Cameroon and Gabon. [PDF]

Parasit Vectors, 2020
Gaillard CM, Pion SD, Hamou H, Sirima C, Bizet C, Lemarcis T, Rodrigues J, Esteban A, Peeters M, Mpoudi Ngole E, Mombo I, Liégeois F, Martin C, Boussinesq M, Locatelli S.   +14 more
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The Efficacy of Doxycycline Treatment on <i>Mansonella perstans</i> Infection: An Open-Label, Randomized Trial in Ghana. [PDF]

Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2019
Batsa Debrah L, Phillips RO, Pfarr K, Klarmann-Schulz U, Opoku VS, Nausch N, Owusu W, Mubarik Y, Sander AL, Lämmer C, Ritter M, Layland LE, Jacobsen M, Debrah AY, Hoerauf A.   +14 more
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