نتایج جستجو برای: river blindness
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On 10th of January 1970, I flew to Guatemala leaving New Orleans on board a TACA aircraft. This was my first trip to Guatemala C.A. expecting to visit Dr. Horacio Figueroa and endemic areas of onchocerciasis in there. During my stay in his house, he showed me a plantation called Panajabal located in the highland far from the capital, a paradise of onchocerciasis according to him, where almost a...
Globally, there have been improvements in the world's health, but in many countries the infant mortality rate is rising. Widespread disease is present in many developing countries. 250 million people suffer from filariasis and 30 million more have onchocerciasis or river blindness. 200 million are infected with schistosomiasis and each year 150 million new cases of malaria are registered. O...
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...
In Japan the lamprey, Entosphenus japonicus Martens, has often been recom mended since old times as a diet efficacious for curing night blindness and tuber culosis because of its rich source of nourishment. Fujimaki (1), Miura (2) and Nakamiya (3), reported the nutritive factors in the lamprey on different occasions and maintained that the vitamin A content of its flesh is several times as much...
Parasitic nematodes that cause elephantiasis and river blindness threaten hundreds of millions of people in the developing world. We have sequenced the approximately 90 megabase (Mb) genome of the human filarial parasite Brugia malayi and predict approximately 11,500 protein coding genes in 71 Mb of robustly assembled sequence. Comparative analysis with the free-living, model nematode Caenorhab...
The filarial parasite Onchocerca volvulus is the causative agent of river blindness. The adult worms produce microfilariae (mf), which are responsible for the disease pathogenesis; mf activate the complement system, but the activation stops before the formation of terminal complement complexes. Because of the arrest of complement activation, this study analyzed binding of the main alternative p...
Onchocerciasis, also known as River Blindness, is a parasitic disease caused by the nematode Onchocerca volvulus and transmitted by black flies of the genus Simulium. It is endemic in Africa, where an estimated 37 million people are infected. It is almost certain that the slave trade in the 17th and 18th centuries brought onchocerciasis from West Africa to the Americas1, where transmission foci...
Onchocerciasis (river blindness) is a major public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa. Major disease-control programs have greatly reduced both disease and infection prevalence by mass distribution of donated ivermectin. Recent studies have shown that local elimination was achieved in some areas following many years of ivermectin. The global health community has recently decided to build on t...
background: ophthalmia neonatorum (on) also known as neonatal conjunctivitis is inflammation of the conjunctiva caused by aseptic or septic factors. it commonly affects newborns usually within the first month of life. this study aimed to determine the prevalence and socio-demographic characteristics of on in calabar, nigeria. methods: we retrieved all the clinical case notes with diagnosis of o...
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