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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

Onchocerciasis in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Survey of knowledge, attitude and perception in Bandundu province

Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2017
A community-directed treatment with ivermectin (CDTI) for fighting onchocerciasis was started in 2003 in the hyperendemic province of Bandundu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); such initiative was supported by the African Programme for Onchocerciasis ...
Jean-Claude Makenga Bof, Dieudonne Mpunga, Emery N. Soa, Fortunat Ntumba, Didier Bakajika, Michele E. Murdoch, Yves Coppieters   +6 more
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Developing Strategies for Onchocerciasis Elimination Mapping and Surveillance Through The Diagnostic Network Optimization Approach

, 2021
Heidi Albert, Benn Sartorius, Paul R. Bessell, Dziedzom K. de Souza, Sidharth Rupani, Karla González, Simon Kayembe, Joseph Mathu Ndung’u, Rachel L. Pullan, Don Paul Makana, Maria Cecilia César de Almeida, Naomi Uvon   +11 more
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Human ascariasis: diagnostics update [PDF]

, 2015
Soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) infect over one billion people worldwide. Ascariasis may mimic a number of conditions, and individual clinical diagnosis often requires a thorough work-up.
Jourdan, Peter M., Lamberton, Poppy H.L.
core   +1 more source

“Test and not treat” for onchocerciasis control in a Loa loa endemic area

New England Journal of Medicine, 2017
BACKGROUND Implementation of an ivermectin‐based community treatment strategy for the elimination of onchocerciasis or lymphatic filariasis has been delayed in Central Africa because of the occurrence of serious adverse events, including death, in ...
J. Kamgno, S. Pion, C. Chesnais, M. Bakalar, Michael V. D’Ambrosio, C. Mackenzie, H. Nana-Djeunga, Raceline Gounoue-Kamkumo, G. Njitchouang, P. Nwane, Jules B. Tchatchueng‐Mbouga, S. Wanji, W. Stolk, D. Fletcher, A. Klion, T. Nutman, M. Boussinesq   +16 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Wolbachia Genome of Brugia malayi: Endosymbiont Evolution within a Human Pathogenic Nematode [PDF]

, 2005
Complete genome DNA sequence and analysis is presented for Wolbachia, the obligate alpha-proteobacterial endosymbiont required for fertility and survival of the human filarial parasitic nematode Brugia malayi. Although, quantitatively, the genome is even
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Methodological challenges for conducting case-control studies to investigate the association between onchocerciasis and epilepsy including nodding syndrome [PDF]

, 2023
Robert Colebunders, Amber Hadermann, Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo   +2 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., Buck, A.H., Quintana, J.F.   +2 more
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Prevalence and Sociodemographic Risk Factors of Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Rural Communities Living in Endemic Foci of Onchocerciasis in Southern Gabon

Pathogens
This prospective survey determined the prevalence and intensity of infections due to geohelminths and the associated risk factors in five onchocerciasis-endemic communities in Gabon between January and February 2020.
Reinne Moutongo Mouandza, Jean Romain Mourou Mbina, Bridy Moutombi Ditombi, Joyce Coella Mihindou, Dimitri Ardrin Moussavou Mabicka, Christian Mayandza, Noe Patrick Mbondoukwe, Bedrich Pongui Ngondza, Luccheri Ndong Akomezoghe, Denise Patricia Mawili Mboumba, Marielle Karine Bouyou Akotet   +10 more
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Evaluating the diagnostic test accuracy of molecular xenomonitoring methods for characterising the community burden of Onchocerciasis

, 2021
Joseph Pryce, Thomas R. Unnasch, Lisa Reimer   +2 more
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