The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation's Tropical Disease Research Program: A 25-Year Retrospective Review 1976-1999 [PDF]
, 2000 Documents and details the foundation's commitment to the program from its inception, and provides an analysis of its successes until the completion of the program in ...
Barnett L. Cline +2 more
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Cysts and tumours of the iris: Diagnostic tools and key management considerations—A review
Clinical &Experimental Ophthalmology, Volume 52, Issue 6, Page 665-683, August 2024.Abstract The iris is a unique structure, with exquisite variations in colour and form. Pathological changes, specifically including iris cysts and tumours are relatively uncommon, difficult to diagnose, and yet potentially blinding or life‐threatening.
Bia Z. Kim +2 more
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Health and labor productivity : the economic impact of onchocercal skin disease [PDF]
Teams from two institutions studied the economic impact of health status on productivity and income. They studied whether onchocercal skin disease caused economic damage to the labor force at a coffee plantation in southwest Ethiopia, and how much.
Aehyung Kim, Hailu, Asrat, Tandon, Ajay
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Ophthalmic Parasitosis: A Review Article [PDF]
, 2012 Ocular parasitosis in human is more prevalent in geographical areas where environmental factors and poor sanitary conditions favor the parasitism between man and animals. Lesions in the eye can be due to damage directly caused by the infectious pathogen,
Ahmed Saliem +2 more
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Infectious disease responses to human climate change adaptations
Global Change Biology, Volume 30, Issue 8, August 2024.Climate change directly affects infectious diseases, but human adaptations—such as changes in water and food production, shifts in movement and habitats, and greenhouse gas reduction efforts—also influence disease spread. This paper examines how these responses can either increase or decrease disease risks.
Georgia Titcomb +3 more
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Public Health Challenges, Volume 3, Issue 2, June 2024.Abstract Visual impairment and blindness pose a significant and growing public health threat in Nigeria. Over 1.6 million Nigerians are visually impaired or blind, with more than 80% of these cases being preventable and treatable. The risk for ocular morbidities is expected to increase due to rapid population growth, an aging population, and the rising
Bet‐ini Nsikak Christian +3 more
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Patterns of epidemiology and control of onchocerciasis in West Africa [PDF]
, 2017 This paper summarizes the work of the Onchocerciasis Control Programme (OCP) in West Africa, a programme which over a 22 year history has reduced the public health problems of blinding onchocerciasis in eleven countries of West Africa through vector ...
Alley, E.S. +7 more
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Human ocular filariasis: further evidence on the zoonotic role of
Parasites & Vectors, 2012 Background Among ocular vector-borne pathogens, Onchocerca volvulus, the agent of the so-called “river blindness”, affects about 37 million people globally. Other Onchocerca spp. have been sporadically reported as zoonotic agents.
Otranto Domenico +9 more
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Microbes Saving Lives and Reducing Suffering
Microbial Biotechnology, Volume 18, Issue 1, January 2025.
Kenneth Timmis +26 more
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Modelling Neglected Tropical Diseases diagnostics: the sensitivity of skin snips for Onchocerca volvulus in near elimination and surveillance settings. [PDF]
, 2016 BACKGROUND: The African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control has proposed provisional thresholds for the prevalence of microfilariae in humans and of L3 larvae in blackflies, below which mass drug administration (MDA) with ivermectin can be stopped and ...
Attah, Simon K +8 more
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