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Significats de river blindness en anglès
portuguès
oncocercose espanyol
oncocercosis 
Infection with the filaria Onchocerca volvulus; results in skin tumours, papular dermatitis, and ocular complications.
Sinònims
Examples for "onchocerciasis"
Examples for "onchocerciasis"
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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.
Ús de river blindness en anglès
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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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But he thinks that the versatile drug will be used to treat many cases of river blindness.
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NTDs, like river blindness and elephantiasis, affect one billion people and kill a half million every year.
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Onchocerciasis or river blindness is a neglected parasitic disease causing severe dermatitis and visual impairment, predominantly in Africa.
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Parasitic worms affect a third of the world's population and cause a number of illnesses, including river blindness and lymphatic filariasis.
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They were infected with diseases like hepatitis and ' river blindness' to help scientists develop vaccines to be used on sick humans.
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To treat river blindness, people are generally prescribed a 3mg tablet for every 15 kilograms of bodyweight.
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The active ingredient, avermectin, went on to become a drug known as ivermectin which is now used to treat river blindness and lymphatic filariasis.
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The drug was first used against parasites in animals, and was later applied with great success in humans to treat river blindness and related diseases.
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That altruism has hugely helped to combat onchocerciasis -aka river blindness -lymphatic filariasis and other parasitic diseases in Africa, Latin America and Yemen.
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Those suffering from the 17 diseases, such as intestinal worms, river blindness, leprosy and sleeping sickness include many of the poorest people in the world.
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The campaign against Guinea worm has been going since 1980; polio, since 1988; river blindness, in the Americas, since 1992.