Human helminthiasis.
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Mass treatment with IVM is an integral component of the onchocerciasis control programmes.
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Bovine nodular onchocercomata represent an interesting model for human onchocerciasis.
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As response to an endemic disease, programs have focused on the control of onchocerciasis transmission.
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First, mild-to-moderate chronic inflammatory cellular infiltration was present in the conjunctiva of the onchocerciasis patients.
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River blindness or onchocerciasis is an eye and skin disease caused by the filaria worm.
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He was also involved in a campaign to eliminate river blindness in West Africa.
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Since 2009 the WHO's focus on river blindness has shifted from treatment to elimination.
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The eye disease is also known as river blindness.
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Filariae cause diseases including: lymphatic filariasis with distressing and disturbing symptoms like elephantiasis; and river blindness.
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Some of those diseases-likepolio, Guinea worm, and river blindness-currentlycause only a handful of cases.
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Accurate, simple and affordable diagnostics are needed to detect Onchocerca volvulus infection in humans.