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Onchocerciasis and Dracunculosis
Dermatologic Clinics, 1989Onchocerciasis is a disease of Africa and Central and South America. It produces severe skin disease and is a leading cause of blindness worldwide. Dracunculosis infection, caused by the guinea worm Dracunculosis medinensis, occurs in tropical Africa.
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International Journal of Dermatology, 1987
ABSTRACT: Onchocerciasis was diagnosed when a skin biopsy specimen immersed in saline revealed microfiliariae. The patient was a 22‐year‐old student from Cameroon, West Africa, complaining of small, recurrent, pruritic papules on his thighs. Chemotherapy with ivermectin, an established anti‐parasitic agent with newly recognized anti‐onchocercal ...
M J, Maso +5 more
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ABSTRACT: Onchocerciasis was diagnosed when a skin biopsy specimen immersed in saline revealed microfiliariae. The patient was a 22‐year‐old student from Cameroon, West Africa, complaining of small, recurrent, pruritic papules on his thighs. Chemotherapy with ivermectin, an established anti‐parasitic agent with newly recognized anti‐onchocercal ...
M J, Maso +5 more
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Onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy: an update and future perspectives.
Trends in Parasitology, 2022A. Hadermann +4 more
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Epileptic disorders, 2019
To describe the clinical manifestations of epilepsy and access to antiseizure treatment in Mahenge in Central Tanzania, an onchocerciasis endemic area with a high prevalence of epilepsy.
D. Bhwana +8 more
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To describe the clinical manifestations of epilepsy and access to antiseizure treatment in Mahenge in Central Tanzania, an onchocerciasis endemic area with a high prevalence of epilepsy.
D. Bhwana +8 more
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Onchocerciasis of the face and mouth
Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, 1986Onchocerciasis is characterized by the presence of numerous microfilariae in the skin, by the formation of subcutaneous nodules, and by eye lesions that frequently lead to blindness. The organisms' life cycle and the clinical symptoms and histologic features of the disease are described, together with three case reports from Nigeria.
H.K. Williams +2 more
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Towards the elimination of onchocerciasis
Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology, 2006Human onchocerciasis is a severely disabling filarial disease that is endemic in 28 African countries, six Latin American countries and Yemen. The disease causes a high burden of blindness and visual loss, along with itching and other severe dermal manifestations.
B Thylefors, M Alleman
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Onchocerciasis: the burden of disease
Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology, 1998The greatest burdens related to human onchocerciasis are the result of the eye and skin lesions and severe itching produced by the microfilariae. Although the major manifestations of the disease do show geographical variation (e.g. onchocercal blindness is not a common complication in all endemic countries), they are often sufficiently severe to ...
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International Ophthalmology, 1990
The first mention in Africa of ocular lesions and of blindness due to onchocerciasis was made by Hissette in Zaïre in 1931, although the disease had already been known there since 1903. On a map of Zaïre were indicated all the known data of the geographical distribution of onchocerciasis: data from the literature, from field work and from the patients ...
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The first mention in Africa of ocular lesions and of blindness due to onchocerciasis was made by Hissette in Zaïre in 1931, although the disease had already been known there since 1903. On a map of Zaïre were indicated all the known data of the geographical distribution of onchocerciasis: data from the literature, from field work and from the patients ...
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Onchocerciasis control in Nigeria
Parasitology Today, 1991Of all the countries in the world, Nigeria has the greatest number of persons with onchocerciasis (Fig. I), now accounting for over a third of the global prevalence. Among factors responsible for this are: the large size of the country and its huge population; conditions in many parts of the country that favour sustained trans- mission and that hinder ...
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Annals of Internal Medicine, 1947
Excerpt Onchocerciasis is a tropical disease found only in sharply circumscribed areas of Central America and Africa.
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Excerpt Onchocerciasis is a tropical disease found only in sharply circumscribed areas of Central America and Africa.
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