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Cross-Reactivity of Filariais ICT Cards in Areas of Contrasting Endemicity of Loa loa and Mansonella perstans in Cameroon: Implications for Shrinking of the Lymphatic Filariasis Map in the Central African Region. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015
BackgroundImmunochromatographic card test (ICT) is a tool to map the distribution of Wuchereria bancrofti. In areas highly endemic for loaisis in DRC and Cameroon, a relationship has been envisaged between high L.
Samuel Wanji, Nathalie Amvongo-Adjia, Benjamin Koudou, Abdel Jelil Njouendou, Patrick W Chounna Ndongmo, Jonas A Kengne-Ouafo, Fabrice R Datchoua-Poutcheu, Bridget Adzemye Fovennso, Dizzle Bita Tayong, Fanny Fri Fombad, Peter U Fischer, Peter I Enyong, Moses Bockarie   +12 more
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A large case series of travel-related Mansonella perstans (vector-borne filarial nematode): a TropNet study in Europe. [PDF]

J Travel Med, 2022
BACKGROUND: Infection with Mansonella perstans is a neglected filariasis, widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa, characterized by an elusive clinical picture; treatment for mansonellosis is not standardized.
Tamarozzi F, Rodari P, Salas-Coronas J, Bottieau E, Salvador F, Soriano-Pérez MJ, Cabeza-Barrera MI, Van Esbroeck M, Treviño B, Buonfrate D, Gobbi FG.   +10 more
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New records of Mansonella ozzardi: a parasite that is spreading from the state of Amazonas to previously uninfected areas of the state of Acre in the Purus River region

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2014
Mansonella ozzardi infections are common in the riverside communities along the Solimões, Negro and Purus Rivers in the state of Amazonas (AM). However, little is known about the presence of this parasite in communities located in regions bordering AM ...
Yara Leite Adami, Gabriel Rodrigues, Marilene Costa Alves, Mario Augusto Pinto Moraes, Dalma Maria Banic, Marilza Maia-Herzog   +5 more
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Mansonellosis in the upper Imo River Basin, Nigeria

, 2005
The Upper Imo River Basin is endemic for mansonellosis due to Mansonella perstans. No case of M. streptocerca microfilaraemia was found in the studied population. The prevalence of M. perstans microfilariae in the area was 12.5%.
PE Simonsen, Pedersen, EM, Pedersen, Erling Møller, Uttah, EC, EC Uttah, JK Udonsi, EM Pedersen, Simonsen, Paul Erik, Simonsen, PE, Udonsi, JK, Udonsi, J.K., Uttah, E.C.   +11 more
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Preliminary comparison between an in-house real-time PCR vs microscopy for the diagnosis of Loa loa and Mansonella perstans [PDF]

, 2021
Infections with the filarial nematodes Loa loa and Mansonella perstans are among the most neglected filarial infections. L. loa is endemic in 11 countries of Central and West Africa and loiasis is estimated to affect about 20 million people. M.
Tang, Thuy-Huong Ta, Perandin, Francesca, Francesca Tamarozzi, Barbara Pajola, La Marca, Giulia, Rubio, José Miguel, Chiara Piubelli, Giulia La Marca, Silva, Ronaldo, Ta Tang, Thuy-Huong, Formenti, Fabio, Tamarozzi, Francesca, Federico Gobbi, Gobbi, Federico, Bisoffi, Zeno, Fabio Formenti, Zeno Bisoffi, Pajola, Barbara, Rubio Muñoz, Jose Miguel, Ronaldo Silva, Thuy-Huong Ta Tang, José Miguel Rubio, Eva Marina Escolar, Piubelli, Chiara, Francesca Perandin, Escolar, Eva Marina   +25 more
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Atypical Mansonella ozzardi Microfilariae from an Endemic Area of Brazilian Amazonia. [PDF]

, 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.
Merino, Francisco J, Ta Tang, Thuy-Huong, Almeida, Tatiana A P, Lanza-Suarez, Marta, López-Vélez, Rogelio, Fuentes Corripio, Isabel, Luz, Sergio LB, Abrahim, Cláudia M M, Rubio Muñoz, Jose Miguel   +8 more
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Mansonellosis at Medium Purus River (Brazilian Amazon)

, 2008
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Referência Nacional em Simulídeos, Oncocercose e Mansonelose. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz.
Adami, Yara Leite, Herzog, Marilza Maia
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A case report of mansonellosis with neuropsychiatric symptoms

, 2017
IntroductionAccording to the WHO, tropical diseases affect 1/5 of the world population, being increasingly frequent in Europe. Most of these diseases produce mainly physical symptoms, but the appearance of accompanying neuropsychiatric symptoms are not ...
D. Maia Asseiceiro, R. Sánchez González, R. Torres Miravet   +2 more
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Genomes of the human filarial parasites Mansonella perstans and Mansonella ozzardi [PDF]

, 2023
Funding Information: Research funding was provided by New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA 01938, USA to AS, ZL, LE, RM, CP, CC. FAPESP (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) supported the field research in Brazil through a research grant to ...
Carlow, Clotilde K.S., Lima, Nathália F., Li, Zhiru, Sinha, Amit, Morgan, Richard D., Poole, Catherine B., Ettwiller, Laurence, Ferreira, Marcelo U., Fombad, Fanny F., Wanji, Samuel   +9 more
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Epidemiology of filarial infections in Latin America: a systematic scoping review

Frontiers in Tropical Diseases
Filarial infections—lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, and mansonellosis—persist as neglected tropical diseases in Latin America despite control efforts.
Donia Tarek Mahdy, Lilian Vargas Barahona, Beatriz I. Jimenez-Molina, Andrés F. Henao-Martínez, Kristen DeSanto, Carlos Franco-Paredes, Nelson Agudelo Higuita, Nelson Agudelo Higuita, Diego-Abelardo Álvarez-Hernández, Víctor Alberto Olano, Gabriel Parra-Henao   +10 more
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