Podoconiosis, a neglected lymphatic tropical disease
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Podoconiosis, a neglected tropical disease.
Podoconiosis or 'endemic non-filarial elephantiasis' is a tropical disease caused by exposure of bare feet to irritant alkaline clay soils. This causes an asymmetrical swelling of the feet and lower limbs due to lymphoedema. Podoconiosis has a curable pre-elephantiasic phase. However, once elephantiasis is established, podoconiosis persists and may cause lifelong disability. The disease is asso...
متن کاملHow Soil Scientists Help Combat Podoconiosis, A Neglected Tropical Disease
Podoconiosis or " endemic non-filarial elephantiasis " is a tropical disease caused by prolonged exposure of bare feet to irritant alkaline clay soils of volcanic origin [1]. The name of the disease is derived from the Greek words for foot: podos, and dust: konos. Small mineral particles from irritant soils penetrate the skin and provoke an inflammatory response leading to fibrosis and blockage...
متن کاملAddressing the Neglected Tropical Disease Podoconiosis in Northern Ethiopia: Lessons Learned from a New Community Podoconiosis Program
BACKGROUND Despite its great public health importance, few control initiatives addressing podoconiosis (non-filarial elephantiasis, a geochemical neglected tropical disease) exist. In June 2010, the first podoconiosis program in Northern Ethiopia, consisting of prevention, awareness, and care and support activities, began in Debre Markos, Northern Ethiopia. This study aims to document and disse...
متن کاملChromoblastomycosis: a Neglected Tropical Disease
Chromoblastomycosis (CMB) is a chronic fungal infection of the skin and the subcutaneous tissue caused by a transcutaneous traumatic inoculation of a specific group of dematiaceous fungi occurring mainly in tropical and subtropical zones worldwide. If not diagnosed at early stages, patients with CBM require long term therapy with systemic antifungals, sometimes associated with physical methods....
متن کاملChagas: a neglected tropical disease.
Chagas disease which is caused by the haemoflagellate Trypanosoma cruzi is classically transmitted by Reduviid bugs of the genera Triatoma and Rhodnius and occurs when the bugs bite humans and pass infective trypomastigotes in their stools which enter the blood through puncture wound in the skin (1). Chagas disease has been recognized as a neglected tropical disease with between eight and nine ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Veins and Lymphatics
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2279-7483
DOI: 10.4081/vl.2020.8859