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Escalation of Germinal Center Responses in Chronic Litomosoides sigmodontis Filarial Infection

European Journal of Immunology, Volume 55, Issue 5, May 2025.
T follicular helper (TFH) cells provide essential help to B cells in germinal centers (GCs). TFH and GC B cell responses are long‐lasting in draining mediastinal lymph nodes of Litomosoides sigmodontis‐infected BALB/c mice, a rodent model of filarial infection. ABSTRACT T follicular helper (TFH) cells are the primary CD4+ T helper cell subset providing
Teresa Steffen, Jesuthas Ajendra, Marianne Koschel, Alexander Palmen, Hannah Wegner, Frederic Risch, Luisa Bach, Manuel Ritter, Marc P. Hübner, Dirk Baumjohann   +9 more
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Assessment of community’s knowledge, attitude and practice about onchocerciasis and community directed treatment with Ivermectin in Quara District, north western Ethiopia

Parasites & Vectors, 2014
Background The African Program for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) has been working with ultimate goal of reducing the public health and socio-economic problems associated with onchocerciasis within a period of 12–15 years.
Fitsum Weldegebreal, Girmay Medhin, Zemichael Weldegebriel, Mengistu Legesse   +3 more
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Predicting the environmental suitability for onchocerciasis in Africa as an aid to elimination planning.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021
Recent evidence suggests that, in some foci, elimination of onchocerciasis from Africa may be feasible with mass drug administration (MDA) of ivermectin. To achieve continental elimination of transmission, mapping surveys will need to be conducted across
Elizabeth A Cromwell, Joshua C P Osborne, Thomas R Unnasch, Maria-Gloria Basáñez, Katherine M Gass, Kira A Barbre, Elex Hill, Kimberly B Johnson, Katie M Donkers, Shreya Shirude, Chris A Schmidt, Victor Adekanmbi, Olatunji O Adetokunboh, Mohsen Afarideh, Ehsan Ahmadpour, Muktar Beshir Ahmed, Temesgen Yihunie Akalu, Ziyad Al-Aly, Fahad Mashhour Alanezi, Turki M Alanzi, Vahid Alipour, Catalina Liliana Andrei, Fereshteh Ansari, Mustafa Geleto Ansha, Davood Anvari, Seth Christopher Yaw Appiah, Jalal Arabloo, Benjamin F Arnold, Marcel Ausloos, Martin Amogre Ayanore, Atif Amin Baig, Maciej Banach, Aleksandra Barac, Till Winfried Bärnighausen, Mohsen Bayati, Krittika Bhattacharyya, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Sadia Bibi, Ali Bijani, Somayeh Bohlouli, Mahdi Bohluli, Oliver J Brady, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Zahid A Butt, Felix Carvalho, Souranshu Chatterjee, Vijay Kumar Chattu, Soosanna Kumary Chattu, Natalie Maria Cormier, Saad M A Dahlawi, Giovanni Damiani, Farah Daoud, Aso Mohammad Darwesh, Ahmad Daryani, Kebede Deribe, Samath Dhamminda Dharmaratne, Daniel Diaz, Hoa Thi Do, Maysaa El Sayed Zaki, Maha El Tantawi, Demelash Abewa Elemineh, Anwar Faraj, Majid Fasihi Harandi, Yousef Fatahi, Valery L Feigin, Eduarda Fernandes, Nataliya A Foigt, Masoud Foroutan, Richard Charles Franklin, Mohammed Ibrahim Mohialdeen Gubari, Davide Guido, Yuming Guo, Arvin Haj-Mirzaian, Kanaan Hamagharib Abdullah, Samer Hamidi, Claudiu Herteliu, Hagos Degefa de Hidru, Tarig B Higazi, Naznin Hossain, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Mowafa Househ, Olayinka Stephen Ilesanmi, Milena D Ilic, Irena M Ilic, Usman Iqbal, Seyed Sina Naghibi Irvani, Ravi Prakash Jha, Farahnaz Joukar, Jacek Jerzy Jozwiak, Zubair Kabir, Leila R Kalankesh, Rohollah Kalhor, Behzad Karami Matin, Salah Eddin Karimi, Amir Kasaeian, Taras Kavetskyy, Gbenga A Kayode, Ali Kazemi Karyani, Abraham Getachew Kelbore, Maryam Keramati, Rovshan Khalilov, Ejaz Ahmad Khan, Md Nuruzzaman Nuruzzaman Khan, Khaled Khatab, Mona M Khater, Neda Kianipour, Kelemu Tilahun Kibret, Yun Jin Kim, Soewarta Kosen, Kris J Krohn, Dian Kusuma, Carlo La Vecchia, Van Charles Lansingh, Paul H Lee, Kate E LeGrand, Shanshan Li, Joshua Longbottom, Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek, Muhammed Magdy Abd El Razek, Afshin Maleki, Abdullah A Mamun, Ali Manafi, Navid Manafi, Mohammad Ali Mansournia, Francisco Rogerlândio Martins-Melo, Mohsen Mazidi, Colm McAlinden, Birhanu Geta Meharie, Walter Mendoza, Endalkachew Worku Mengesha, Desalegn Tadese Mengistu, Seid Tiku Mereta, Tomislav Mestrovic, Ted R Miller, Mohammad Miri, Masoud Moghadaszadeh, Abdollah Mohammadian-Hafshejani, Reza Mohammadpourhodki, Shafiu Mohammed, Salahuddin Mohammed, Masoud Moradi, Rahmatollah Moradzadeh, Paula Moraga, Jonathan F Mosser, Mehdi Naderi, Ahamarshan Jayaraman Nagarajan, Gurudatta Naik, Ionut Negoi, Cuong Tat Nguyen, Huong Lan Thi Nguyen, Trang Huyen Nguyen, Rajan Nikbakhsh, Bogdan Oancea, Tinuke O Olagunju, Andrew T Olagunju, Ahmed Omar Bali, Obinna E Onwujekwe, Adrian Pana, Hadi Pourjafar, Fakher Rahim, Mohammad Hifz Ur Rahman, Priya Rathi, Salman Rawaf, David Laith Rawaf, Reza Rawassizadeh, Serge Resnikoff, Melese Abate Reta, Aziz Rezapour, Enrico Rubagotti, Salvatore Rubino, Ehsan Sadeghi, Abedin Saghafipour, S Mohammad Sajadi, Abdallah M Samy, Rodrigo Sarmiento-Suárez, Monika Sawhney, Megan F Schipp, Amira A Shaheen, Masood Ali Shaikh, Morteza Shamsizadeh, Kiomars Sharafi, Aziz Sheikh, B Suresh Kumar Shetty, B Suresh Kumar Shetty, Jae Il Shin, K M Shivakumar, Biagio Simonetti, Jasvinder A Singh, Eirini Skiadaresi, Amin Soheili, Shahin Soltani, Emma Elizabeth Spurlock, Mu'awiyyah Babale Sufiyan, Takahiro Tabuchi, Leili Tapak, Robert L Thompson, Alan J Thomson, Eugenio Traini, Bach Xuan Tran, Irfan Ullah, Saif Ullah, Chigozie Jesse Uneke, Bhaskaran Unnikrishnan, Olalekan A Uthman, Natalie V S Vinkeles Melchers, Francesco S Violante, Haileab Fekadu Wolde, Tewodros Eshete Wonde, Tomohide Yamada, Sanni Yaya, Vahid Yazdi-Feyzabadi, Paul Yip, Naohiro Yonemoto, Hebat-Allah Salah A Yousof, Chuanhua Yu, Yong Yu, Hasan Yusefzadeh, Leila Zaki, Sojib Bin Zaman, Maryam Zamanian, Zhi-Jiang Zhang, Yunquan Zhang, Arash Ziapour, Simon I Hay, David M Pigott   +224 more
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Simmering Tensions and Emerging Conflicts Among Key Group Actors Amid Capitalist Transformation in Northern Ghana

Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 25, Issue 2, April 2025.
ABSTRACT A capitalist agrarian transformation is unfolding in northern Ghana, marked by shifts in crop types, rapid increases in farm sizes and deepening rural social differentiation. This paper investigates these dynamics through a mixed‐methods approach across six farming communities in two districts, focusing on how social differentiation ...
Ibrahim Wahab, Joseph A. Yaro, Gloria Afful‐Mensah, Michael B. Awen‐Naam   +3 more
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Community‐based epilepsy care in an onchocerciasis‐endemic area: A 3‐year cohort study in Mahenge, Tanzania

Epilepsia, Volume 66, Issue 3, Page 739-752, March 2025.
Abstract Objective In onchocerciasis‐endemic areas, limited access to antiseizure medications (ASMs) contributes to a high epilepsy burden. This study evaluated the impact of a community‐based epilepsy care program in Mahenge, Tanzania, an onchocerciasis‐endemic area with high epilepsy prevalence.
Dan Bhwana, Luís‐Jorge Amaral, Olivia Kamoen, Athanas Mhina, Vivian Mushi, William Makunde, William Matuja, Meshack Mpogole, Bruno P. Mmbando, Robert Colebunders   +9 more
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Prevalence of onchocerciasis, attitudes and practices and the treatment coverage after 15 years of mass drug administration with ivermectin in the Tombel Health District, Cameroon [PDF]

, 2020
Sharon Mumah Nyagang, Samuel Nambile Cumber, Jerome Fru Cho, Elsie Indah Keka, Claude Ngwayu Nkfusai, Emerson Wepngong, Joyce Mahlako Tsoka-Gwegweni, Eric B. Fokam   +7 more
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Biting rates and relative abundance of Simulium flies under different climatic conditions in an onchocerciasis endemic community in Ghana [PDF]

, 2020
Kenneth Bentum Otabil, Samuel Fosu Gyasi, Esi Awuah, D. Obeng‐Ofori, Seth Boateng Tenkorang, Justice Amenyo Kessie, Henk D. F. H. Schallig   +6 more
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Ivermectin as a promising therapeutic option for onchocerciasis‐associated epilepsy

Epilepsia Open, Volume 10, Issue 1, Page 361-367, February 2025.
Abstract Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, is a neglected tropical disease caused by the parasite Onchocerca volvulus. It can lead to blindness and visual impairment. Studies have also demonstrated a link between onchocerciasis and epilepsy, with there being a correlation between onchocerciasis endemicity and epilepsy prevalence ...
Mohammad Amin Manavi, Razieh Mohammad Jafari, Hamed Shafaroodi, Mohammad Sharifzadeh, Ahmad Reza Dehpour   +4 more
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FDA‐approved drugs featuring macrocycles or medium‐sized rings

Archiv der Pharmazie, Volume 358, Issue 1, January 2025.
This review presents 17 macrocyclic drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration during the past 5 years, highlighting their importance and critical role in modern therapeutics, and the innovative synthetic approaches for the construction of these macrocycles.
Youlong Du, Anas Semghouli, Qian Wang, Haibo Mei, Loránd Kiss, Daniel Baecker, Vadim A. Soloshonok, Jianlin Han   +7 more
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Barriers to the National Onchocerciasis Control Programme at operational level in Cameroon: a qualitative assessment of stakeholders’ views

Parasites & Vectors, 2019
Background The global burden of onchocerciasis is the heaviest in sub-Saharan Africa. Studies have shown the importance of the role of Community-Directed Distributors (CDDs) and nurses in onchocerciasis control, but little is known about their experience
Fanny Nadia Dissak-Delon, Guy-Roger Kamga, Perrine Claire Humblet, Annie Robert, Jacob Souopgui, Joseph Kamgno, Stephen Mbigha Ghogomu, Isabelle Godin   +7 more
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