2) A Guatemala-Japan Collaboration Project for Onchocerciasis Research Supported by JICA, Japan
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2) A Guatemala-Japan Collaboration Project for Onchocerciasis Research Supported by JICA, Japan
On July 21 of 1975, an agreement was signed to start a collaboration project for the research of onchocerciasis. For this project, Japan decided to send researchers to Guatemala to aid Guatemalan staff of technicians in a research to combat a disastrous filariasis. This disease was discovered in this country by Dr. Rodolfo Robles in the year 1915 and that is why it is known as Robles disease. T...
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In 1915 Dr. R. Robles became the first to record American onchocerciasis from Guatemala, where it is accordingly called “Robles’ Disease”. He assumed that the vectors would prove to be blackflies and recommended that nodulectomy would be the effective treatment. Since his discovery, both original research and experimental trials concerning treatment and control measures have been carried out in...
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Although onchocerciasis in cattle and horses in Japan had been noted in the veterinary field since the early 1950s, research on human onchocerciasis that is caused by Onchocerca volvulus was carried out only in the early 70s. It began when I did a brief study of skin test for onchocerciasis cases in Guatemala, Central America, in collaboration with Dr. H. Figueroa [1] using a Dirofilaria antige...
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Studies of blackfly vectors of Onchocerca dewittei japonica Uni, Bain & Takaoka (Spirurida: Onchocercidae), a parasite of wild boar implicated in the aetiology of zoonotic onchocerciasis in Japan, and six other zoonotic Onchocerca species of this country are reviewed. Molecular identification of infective larvae found in wild-caught female blackflies showed that Simulium bidentatum (Shiraki) (D...
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عنوان ژورنال: Tropical Medicine and Health
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1348-8945,1349-4147
DOI: 10.2149/tmh.2015-s07