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- of onchocerciasis are due to localized host inflammatory responses to dead or dying microfilariae (larvae). The signs and symptoms of onchocerciasis are...
- Filaria that are spread by mosquitoes. Other types of filariasis are onchocerciasis also known as river blindness caused by onchocerca volvulus; Loa loa...
- in 1997, the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control reports a reduction in the prevalence of onchocerciasis in the countries under its mandate from...
- to treat infestations including head lice, scabies, river blindness (onchocerciasis), strongyloidiasis, trichuriasis, ascariasis and lymphatic filariasis...
- volvulus is a filarial (arthropod-borne) nematode (roundworm) that causes onchocerciasis (river blindness), and is the second-leading cause of blindness due...
- Retrieved 2025-03-24. "Onchocerciasis". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 2016-01-21. "Onchocerciasis". Lexico UK English Dictionary...
- the Control of Onchocerciasis (APOC) and Oncho Elimination Programme for the Americas to greatly diminish the effect of onchocerciasis by donating ivermectin...
- PMIDĀ 18927419. CDC Advisory Archived 2007-05-31 at the Wayback Machine "What is onchocerciasis?". CDC. Retrieved 2010-06-28. transmission is most intense in remote...
- of onchocerciasis while having no effect on the microfilariae of L. loa. In a study done at five different co-endemic regions for onchocerciasis and...
- spearheading the campaign to eradicate dracunculiasis, as well as treating onchocerciasis, trachoma, lymphatic filariasis, and malaria. In 2002, Jimmy Carter...