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Efficacy of Immunostimulatory Adjuvants and Nano-Adjuvants in Current SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines: A Comprehensive Review. [PDF]
Health Sci RepABSTRACT Background and Aims SARS‐CoV‐2 continues to pose global challenges, and current vaccines face limitations (variant escape, waning immunity). This review evaluates immunostimulatory adjuvants and nano‐adjuvants to enhance immune responses and optimize SARS‐CoV‐2 vaccine performance.
Zarandi PK +5 more
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Presence of a cryptic Onchocerca species in black flies of northern California, USA
Parasites & Vectors, 2021 Background Black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) serve as arthropod vectors for various species of Onchocerca (Nematoda: Onchocercidae) that may be associated with disease in humans, domestic animals, and wildlife.
Matthew Kulpa +6 more
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Five Serologic Tests for Strongyloides stercoralis Infection [PDF]
, 2014 Background:The diagnosis of Strongyloides stercoralis (S. stercoralis) infection is hampered by the suboptimal sensitivity of fecal-based tests. Serological methods are believed to be more sensitive, although assessing their accuracy is difficult because
Albonico, Marco +12 more
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A rare case of cutaneous onchocerciasis in North-East India, review of literature
Indian Dermatology Online Journal, 2020 Onchocerca volvulus is a spirurid nematode that mainly affects the rural poor of Sub-Saharan Africa, Yemen, and parts of Central and South America. River blindness caused by Onchocerca volvulus is considered to be the second most common infectious cause ...
M M Pasha +3 more
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Revue d’Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, 1994 Des nodules sous-cutanés et de la peau ombilicale sont prélevés sur 6 Bos indicus onchocerquiens au Cameroun, pour l'étude anatomopathologiq ue. Les nodules à Onchocerca ochengi et Onchocerca dukei ont la même structure que celle des nodules à Onchocerca
P.N. Vuong +3 more
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Development of Onchocerca volvulus in humanized NSG mice and detection of parasite biomarkers in urine and serum. [PDF]
, 2018 BACKGROUND: The study of Onchocerca volvulus has been limited by its host range, with only humans and non-human primates shown to be susceptible to the full life cycle infection.
Abraham, David +7 more
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What's in your next-generation sequence data? An exploration of unmapped DNA and RNA sequence reads from the bovine reference individual. [PDF]
, 2015 BackgroundNext-generation sequencing projects commonly commence by aligning reads to a reference genome assembly. While improvements in alignment algorithms and computational hardware have greatly enhanced the efficiency and accuracy of alignments, a ...
Alexander, Leeson J +9 more
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Small RNAs and extracellular vesicles in filarial nematodes: from nematode development to diagnostics [PDF]
, 2016 Parasitic nematodes have evolved sophisticated mechanisms to communicate with their hosts in order to survive and successfully establish an infection. The transfer of RNA within extracellular vesicles (EVs) has recently been described as a mechanism that
Babayan, S.A. +2 more
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International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2016 Twenty-seven species of the genus Onchocerca (Nematoda; Filarioidea) can cause a vector-borne parasitic disease called onchocercosis. Most Onchocerca species infect wild and domestic ungulates or the dog, and one species causes river blindness in humans ...
Felix Bosch +2 more
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020 This paper reports the occurrence for the first time in Italy of autochthonous Onchocerca infection in donkeys. Four jennies, bred on the same farm, were referred to the Veterinary Teaching Hospital of Pisa for a check-up on ovarian activity (n = 3) or ...
Roberto Amerigo Papini +2 more
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