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Evidence of suppression of onchocerciasis transmission in the Venezuelan Amazonian focus. [PDF]

, 2016
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) has set goals for onchocerciasis elimination in Latin America by 2015. Most of the six previously endemic countries are attaining this goal by implementing twice a year (and in some foci, quarterly) mass ...
Basanez, MG, Borges, D, Botto, C, Camacho, O, Coronel, P, Cortez, J, Escalona, M, Flores, J, Frontado, H, Graterol, B, Grillet, ME, Guerra, F, Margeli, H, Morales, AL, Noya-Alarcón, O, Rodriguez, MA, Ríos, D, Tovar, Y, Unnasch, TR, Villamizar, NJ, Vivas-Martínez, S   +20 more
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Laparoscopic 'steering wheel' derotation technique for midgut volvulus in children with intestinal malrotation

Journal of Minimal Access Surgery, 2019
Introduction: Since the first description by William Ladd, the Ladd's procedure has been the surgery of choice for the correction of malrotation. The laparoscopic Ladd's procedure is becoming popular with the advent of minimal access surgery and is ...
Vikesh Agrawal, Abhishek Tiwari, Himanshu Acharya, Rajesh Mishra, Dhananjaya Sharma   +4 more
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Serotonin Levels in the Serum of Persons with Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy: A Case-Control Study

Pathogens, 2021
Onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy (OAE) is a devastating childhood disorder occurring in areas with high Onchocerca volvulus transmission. Despite epidemiological evidence showing the association between O.
Melissa Krizia Vieri, An Hotterbeekx, Michel Mandro, Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo, Alfred Dusabimana, Francoise Nyisi, Deby Mukendi, Joe Gwatsvaira, Samir Kumar-Singh, Robert Colebunders   +9 more
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Evaluation of semiochemical based push-pull strategy for population suppression of ambrosia beetle vectors of laurel wilt disease in avocado. [PDF]

, 2020
Ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae and Platypodinae) bore into tree xylem to complete their life cycle, feeding on symbiotic fungi.
Carrillo, Daniel, Conover, Derrick, Mafra-Neto, Agenor, Martini, Xavier, Rivera, Monique J, Stelinski, Lukasz L   +5 more
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Gastric volvulus [PDF]

Emergency Medicine Journal, 2007
Gastric volvulus is a rare disease with an unknown incidence. Unless it stays in the back of the diagnostician's mind, diagnosis of gastric volvulus, which can have significant morbidity and mortality associated with it, can be easily missed. Unstable vital signs and distressed appearance are not always present, as in textbook cases.
Bang, Chau, Susan, Dufel
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Stage-specific proteomes from onchocerca ochengi, sister species of the human river blindness parasite, uncover adaptations to a nodular lifestyle [PDF]

, 2016
Despite 40 years of control efforts, onchocerciasis (river blindness) remains one of the most important neglected tropical diseases, with 17 million people affected.
Adam, Altschul, Altschul, Anon, Argueta, Armstrong, Armstrong, Arumugam, Babayan, Bazzocchi, Bendtsen, Benjamini, Bennuru, Bennuru, Berry, Berry, Board, Boatin, Brattig, Brattig, Brophy, Bulman, Burbelo, Burchard, Burket, Butler, Chandrashekar, Chawade, Chhabra, Choi, Claros, Constam, Cooray, Crump, Darby, Darby, Desjardins, Duckert, Edgar, Edwards, Erttmann, Finn, Franceschini, Frank, Gallin, Gardon, GBD 2013 Mortality and Causes of Death Collaborators, Geary, Ghali, Ghedin, Ghosh, Gilbert, Globisch, Godel, Gomez-Escobar, Gopal, Gotenstein, Gottsch, Grainger, Gretes, Guan, Guiliano, Hansen, Henrichfreise, Hewitson, Hewitson, Hewitson, Hotez, Hunter, Ichishita, Joseph, Joza, Kanazawa, Klion, Ko, Koonin, Korten, Krogh, Larkin, Li, Li, Liebau, Liebau, Liebau, Liebau, Littler, Liu, Longo, Lu, Lundquist, Lustigman, Lustigman, Mackenzie, Makepeace, Marti, McGarry, McSorley, Melnikow, Meyer, Michalski, Morales-Hojas, Moreno, Moreno, Morris, Mossmann, Nana-Djeunga, Nfon, Nicholson, Nomura, Ohtsuki, Ohtsuki, Osei-Atweneboana, Page, Pant, Parra, Petersen, Plaisier, Quintana, Ranjan, Rew, Rogalski, Roth, Saitou, Schulz-Key, Schulz-Key, Scocchi, Sheehan, Silva, Sommer, Srivastava, Tamarozzi, Tanikawa, Taylor, Tchakouté, Ternent, Tew, Thompson, Tiwari, Trees, Vogel, Wahl, Waterhouse, Westermann, Wildenburg, Willenbucher, Wilson, Wisniewski, Wu, Wu, Xie, Xie, Yamaguchi, Yang, Yasuda, Zanetti, Zipfel   +155 more
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A Case Report of a Rare Aetiology of a Sigmoid Volvulus Involving a Congenital Omental Defect [PDF]

Journal of Acute Care Surgery
Sigmoid volvulus is a rare form of large bowel obstruction and makes up < 5% of all colonic obstruction. The commonest aetiologies include a lead point involving an intra or extra luminal mass such as a malignancy or a benign stricture or colonic ...
Yagan Pillay, Vimal Naidoo
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Potential value of triple drug therapy with ivermectin, diethylcarbamazine, and albendazole (IDA) to accelerate elimination of lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis in Africa [PDF]

, 2017
<p>Background: Filarial nematodes are tissue-dwelling parasites that can be killed by Th2-driven immune effectors, but that have evolved to withstand immune attack and establish chronic infections by suppressing host immunity. As a consequence, the
Fischer, Peter U, Jacobson, Julie A, King, Christopher L, Weil, Gary J   +3 more
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The isolation of differentially expressed cDNA clones from the filarial nematode Brugia pahangi [PDF]

, 1999
A cDNA library constructed from 3 day post-infective L3 of the filarial nematode Brugia pahangi was screened by differential hybridization with cDNA probes prepared from different life-cycle stages.
Devaney, E., Hunter, S.J., Martin, S.A., Tetley, L., Thompson, F.J.   +4 more
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The kunitz domain protein BLI-5 plays a functionally conserved role in cuticle formation in a diverse range of nematodes [PDF]

, 2010
The cuticle of parasitic nematodes performs many critical functions and is essential for proper development and for protection from the host immune response.
Antony P. Page, Bernard, Blaxter, Chu, Cook, Fessler, Ford, Frand, Ghedin, Gillian McCormack, Gillian Stepek, Hawdon, Johnstone, Johnstone, Kingston, Kingston, Kramerova, Kramerova, Kress, Mieszczanek, Milstone, Nagano, Novelli, Novelli, Paesen, Page, Page, Poole, Priess, Redmond, Rhoads, Sasaki, Scott, Shamansky, Skuce, Stanssens, Studier, Thacker, Thacker, Thacker, Thacker, Thein, Wells, Winter   +43 more
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