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RECRUDESCENCE OF ONCHOCERCIASIS IN THE COMOÉ VALLEY IN SOUTHWEST BURKINA FASO. [PDF]

, 2016
: Onchocerciasis control by vector control was instigated in southwest Burkina Faso in January 1969 by ORSTOM/OCCGE, and continued until operations were taken over by the WHO Onchocerciasis Control Programme (OCP) in February 1975, which itself ceased ...
Drabo, F, Kafando, CM, Koala, L, Nikiema, A, Paré, AB, Post, RJ, Traoré, S   +6 more
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Integration of onchocerciasis morbidity management and disability prevention services in the healthcare system in Tanzania: a call for action and recommendations

Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines
Onchocerciasis is among the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) responsible for dermatological, ophthalmological, and neurological manifestations. With the ongoing burden of onchocerciasis clinical manifestations, morbidity management, and disability ...
Vivian Mushi, Bruno P. Mmbando, Robert Colebunders   +2 more
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Progress towards onchocerciasis elimination in the participating countries of the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control: epidemiological evaluation results

Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2016
BackgroundThe African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) was created in 1995 to establish community-directed treatment with ivermectin (CDTi) in order to control onchocerciasis as a public health problem in 20 African countries that had 80 % of ...
A. Tekle, Honorat G. M. Zouré, M. Noma, M. Boussinesq, L. Coffeng, W. Stolk, J. Remmé   +6 more
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From river blindness to river epilepsy: Implications for onchocerciasis elimination programmes

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2019
1 Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, 2 Neglected and Disabling Diseases of Poverty Consultant, Kent, United Kingdom, 3 Neglected Tropical Diseases Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda, 4 National institute
R. Colebunders, J. S. Siewe Fodjo, A. Hopkins, A. Hotterbeekx, T. Lakwo, A. Kalinga, M. Y. Logora, M. Basáñez   +7 more
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Epidemiological Mapping of Onchocerciasis Hypoendemic Area of North Achefer District, Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia [PDF]

, 2022
Wuletaw Tadesse Mekonnin, Tadesse Kebede, Sindew Mekasha   +2 more
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Water resources development: engineering the future of global health [PDF]

, 2013
This repository item contains a single issue of Issues in Brief, a series of policy briefs that began publishing in 2008 by the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.Pardee 2012 Summer Graduate Fellow Diana
Gergel, Diana
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Onchocerciasis associated epilepsy—A question of causality [PDF]

, 2019
Paul T. Cantey, James J. Sejvar
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Human immune response against salivary antigens of Simulium damnosum s.l.: A new epidemiological marker for exposure to blackfly bites in onchocerciasis endemic areas

, 2021
Laura Willen, María‐Gloria Basáñez, Vít Dvořák, Francis Balungnaa Dhari Veriegh, Frank Twum Aboagye, Bright Idun, Maha E. Osman, Mike Y. Osei‐Atweneboana, Orin Courtenay, Petr Volf   +9 more
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Onchocerciasis

Definitions, 2020

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Immune Responses in Human Necatoriasis: Association between Interleukin-5 Responses and Resistance to Reinfection [PDF]

, 2004
Cytokine and proliferative responses to Necator americanus infection were measured in a treatment-reinfection study of infected subjects from an area of Papua New Guinea where N. americanus is highly endemic.
Brown, A.P., Pritchard, D.I., Quinnell, R.J., Raiko, A., Shaw, M.-A.   +4 more
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