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Microbes Saving Lives and Reducing Suffering

Microbial Biotechnology, Volume 18, Issue 1, January 2025.
Kenneth Timmis, Zeynep Ceren Karahan, Juan Luis Ramos, Omry Koren, Ana Elena Pérez‐Cobas, Karen Steward, Victor de Lorenzo, Elisabetta Caselli, Margaret Douglas, Clarissa Schwab, Virginia Rivero, Rafael Giraldo, Junkal Garmendia, Raymond J. Turner, Jessamyn Perlmutter, José M. Borrero de Acuña, Pablo Ivan Nikel, Jerome Bonnet, Angela Sessitsch, James K. Timmis, Carla Pruzzo, M. Auxiliadora Prieto, Siavash Isazadeh, Wei E. Huang, Gerard Clarke, Danilo Ercolini, Max Häggblom   +26 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence and risk factors for Active Convulsive Epilepsy in Kintampo, Ghana

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2015
INTRODUCTION: epilepsy is common in sub-Saharan Africa, but there is little data in West Africa, to develop public health measures for epilepsy in this region.
Kenneth Ayuurebobi Ae-Ngibise, Bright Akpalu, Anthony Ngugi, Albert Akpalu, Francis Agbokey, Patrick Adjei, Damien Punguyire, Christian Bottomley, Charles Newton, Seth Owusu-Agyei   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Letter to the Editor: Onchocerca lupi infection [PDF]

, 2015
Paul T. Cantey, Mark Eberhard, Jessica Weeks, Sara Swoboda, Gholamabbas Amin Ostovar   +4 more
openalex   +1 more source

Model-Based Geostatistical Mapping of the Prevalence of Onchocerca volvulus in West Africa

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016
Background The initial endemicity (pre-control prevalence) of onchocerciasis has been shown to be an important determinant of the feasibility of elimination by mass ivermectin distribution.
S. O'Hanlon, Hannah C. Slater, R. Cheke, B. Boatin, L. Coffeng, S. Pion, M. Boussinesq, Honorat G M Zoure, W. Stolk, M. Basáñez   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Extracellular Onchocerca-derived small RNAs in host nodules and blood

Parasites & Vectors, 2015
Background microRNAs (miRNAs), a class of short, non-coding RNA can be found in a highly stable, cell-free form in mammalian body fluids. Specific miRNAs are secreted by parasitic nematodes in exosomes and have been detected in the serum of murine and ...
Juan F Quintana, Benjamin L Makepeace, Simon A Babayan, Alasdair Ivens, Kenneth M Pfarr, Mark Blaxter, Alexander Debrah, Samuel Wanji, Henrietta F Ngangyung, Germanus S Bah, Vincent N Tanya, David W Taylor, Achim Hoerauf, Amy H Buck   +13 more
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Onchocerciasis Drug Discovery: In Vitro Evaluation of FDA-Approved Drugs against Onchocerca gutturosa in Gambia

Pharmaceutics
Onchocerciasis treatment and control relies mainly on the use of ivermectin which has high activity against the microfilarial stage of Onchocerca volvulus but limited activity against the long-lived, tissue dwelling adult nematodes.
Suzanne Gokool, Simon Townson, Andrew Freeman, Jadzia Siemienski-Kleyn, Jakub Zubrzycki, Senyo Tagboto, Marc P. Hübner, Ivan Scandale   +7 more
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The mitogenome of Onchocerca volvulus from the Brazilian Amazonia focus [PDF]

, 2016
James Lee Crainey, Túllio RR da Silva, Fernando Encinas, Michel A Marín, Ana Carolina Paulo Vicente, Sérgio Luíz Bessa Luz   +5 more
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Drugs that target early stages of Onchocerca volvulus: A revisited means to facilitate the elimination goals for onchocerciasis

, 2021
S Jawahar, Nancy Tricoche, Christina A. Bulman, Judy A. Sakanari, Sara Lustigman   +4 more
openalex   +2 more sources

Filariosis humana en la selva peruana: reporte de tres casos

Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública, 2008
Se presenta tres casos de filariosis de pacientes varones procedentes de la selva peruana (Junín, San Martín y Pucallpa). Un caso presentó filarias en el globo ocular y frotís sanguíneo, que según morfología, serología y biología molecular se determinó ...
María Beltrán, Gabriela Cancrini, Guillermo Reátegui, Raúl Melgar, Carlos Ayllón, María del Carmen Garaycochea, Rosalina Reyes, Patrick J. Lammie   +7 more
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Nodding syndrome may be an autoimmune reaction to the parasitic worm Onchocerca volvulus

Science Translational Medicine, 2017
T. Johnson, R. Tyagi, Paul R. Lee, Myoung-Hwa Lee, Kory R. Johnson, J. Kowalak, A. Elkahloun, Marie Medynets, A. Hategan, J. Kubofcik, J. Sejvar, Jeffrey Ratto, Sudhir Bunga, Issa Makumbi, J. Aceng, T. Nutman, S. Dowell, A. Nath   +17 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source