ONCHOCERCIASIS AND LEPROSY
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منابع مشابه
Onchocerciasis.
An estimated 17.7 million persons, most of them in Africa, are infected with the parasite Onchocerca volvulus. Onchocerciasis has caused blindness in 270,000 and left another 500,000 with severe visual impairment. Onchocerciasis also can cause disfiguring skin changes, musculoskeletal complaints, weight loss, changes in immune function, epilepsy, and growth arrest. The development of ivermec...
متن کاملOnchocerciasis and the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (apoc)
Introduction Onchocerciasis, or ‘river-blindness’, is a disease caused by infection with the filarial worm, Onchocerca volvulus. The parasite is transmitted to human hosts by infected female ‘blackflies’, Simulium spp., as they feed on the host’s blood. Whilst feeding, the fly secretes saliva containing infective larvae. These larvae enter the host’s subcutaneous tissue, migrate, and form nodul...
متن کامل3) Onchocerciasis
Historical view The parasite, Onchocerca volvulus, was first detected in a Ghanaian by a German missionary in 1890 and was nominated Filaria volvulus by Leuckart (1893). No pathogenicity of the parasite was found yet. In 1915, however, R. Robles reported the new distribution of this filarial parasite in Guatemala, Central America, after enormous parasitological, clinical and epidemiological stu...
متن کامل2) Onchocerciasis
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...
متن کاملZoonotic onchocerciasis.
To the Editor: Major human onchocerciasis reported in Africa and Central/ South America is caused by Onchocerca volvulus. This blackfly-mediated parasitosis is also called ‘river blindness’, often resulting in visual disturbance in the endemic area. Ocular involvement by O. lupi, a canine parasite, has recently been the subject of focus. In Japan, infestation of O. volvulus or O. lupi is not se...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Leprosy Review
سال: 1960
ISSN: 0305-7518
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19600009