Mansonelliasis, a neglected parasitic disease in Haiti [PDF]
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2014 Reported in Haiti as early as 1923, Mansonella ozzardi is still a neglected disease ignored by the health authorities of the country. This review is an update on the geographic distribution of the coastal foci of mansonelliasis in Haiti, the ...
Christian Pierre Raccurt +2 more
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Sensitivity of diagnostic methods for Mansonella ozzardi microfilariae detection in the Brazilian Amazon Region [PDF]
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2018 BACKGROUND The human filarial worm Mansonella ozzardi is highly endemic in the large tributaries of the Amazon River. This infection is still highly neglected and can be falsely negative when microfilariae levels are low.
Jansen Fernandes Medeiros +7 more
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A Systematic Review of the Epidemiology of Mansonelliasis. [PDF]
Afr J Infect Dis, 2010 Although infection with any of the three types of Mansonella species that affect humans is often asymptomatic, a large portion of the world’s population is at risk of this vectorborne filarial nematode infection.No previous global review of the epidemiology of mansonelliasis has been conducted.
Downes BL, Jacobsen KH.
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Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1992 En 26 asentamientos selváticos del Estado Bolívar, Venezuela, fueron muestreados el 10% o más de sus residentes mediante examen físico, biopsias de piel y toma de sangre periférica.
Clemencia E. Medrano +2 more
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Mansonella perstans, Onchocerca volvulus and Strongyloides stercoralis infections in rural populations in central and southern Togo [PDF]
Parasite Epidemiology and Control, 2018 Background: Mansonella perstans, Onchocerca volvulus and Strongyloides stercoralis are widespread helminth parasites in the tropics. Their distribution remains difficult to determine as it may change during national disease control programs and with ...
Francois Korbmacher +7 more
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Mansonella ozzardi in the municipality of Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil, 60 years after the first report: an epidemiologic study [PDF]
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2014 The prevalence of mansonelliasis was studied in the municipality of Tefé, state of Amazonas, Brazil. The prevalence (thick blood smear method) was 13.6% (147/1,078), higher in the Solimões River region (16.3%) than in the Tefé River region (6.3%). In the
Jansen Fernandes Medeiros +4 more
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Ceratopogonidae (Diptera: Nematocera) of the piedmont of the Yungas forests of Tucumán: ecology and distribution [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 Within the Ceratopogonidae family, many genera transmit numerous diseases to humans and animals, while others are important pollinators of tropical crops.
José Manuel Direni Mancini +4 more
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High Prevalence of Mansonella ozzardi Infection in the Amazon Region, Ecuador [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2019 We reviewed Giemsa-stained thick blood smears, obtained through the national malaria surveillance program in the Amazon region of Ecuador, by light microscopy for Mansonella spp. microfilariae. Of 2,756 slides examined, 566 (20.5%) were positive.
Manuel Calvopina +4 more
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In Silico Identification of Novel Biomarkers and Development of New Rapid Diagnostic Tests for the Filarial Parasites Mansonella perstans and Mansonella ozzardi [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2019 Mansonelliasis is a widespread yet neglected tropical infection of humans in Africa and South America caused by the filarial nematodes, Mansonella perstans, M. ozzardi, M. rodhaini and M. streptocerca.
C. B. Poole +9 more
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A field trial of a PCR-based Mansonella ozzardi diagnosis assay detects high-levels of submicroscopic M. ozzardi infections in both venous blood samples and FTA® card dried blood spots [PDF]
Parasites & Vectors, 2015 Background Mansonella ozzardi is a poorly understood human filarial parasite with a broad distribution throughout Latin America. Most of what is known about its parasitism has come from epidemiological studies that have estimated parasite incidence using
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