Usage of "robles' disease"

Infection with the filaria Onchocerca volvulus; results in skin tumours, papular dermatitis, and ocular complications.

Sinònims

Examples for "onchocerciasis"

Examples for "onchocerciasis"

Mass treatment with IVM is an integral component of the onchocerciasis control programmes. 
 Pubmed 

Bovine nodular onchocercomata represent an interesting model for human onchocerciasis. 
 Pubmed 

As response to an endemic disease, programs have focused on the control of onchocerciasis transmission. 
 Pubmed 

First, mild-to-moderate chronic inflammatory cellular infiltration was present in the conjunctiva of the onchocerciasis patients. 
 Pubmed 

River blindness or onchocerciasis is an eye and skin disease caused by the filaria worm. 
 Reuters 

He was also involved in a campaign to eliminate river blindness in West Africa. 
 Reuters 

Since 2009 the WHO's focus on river blindness has shifted from treatment to elimination. 
 The Irish Times 

The eye disease is also known as river blindness. 
 Reuters 

Filariae cause diseases including: lymphatic filariasis with distressing and disturbing symptoms like elephantiasis; and river blindness. 
 Pubmed 

Some of those diseases-likepolio, Guinea worm, and river blindness-currentlycause only a handful of cases. 
 Wired 

Significats de robles' disease en anglès