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Meanings of infection by onchocerca volvulus in English

Russian
онхоцеркоз
Portuguese
oncocercíase
Spanish
oncocercosis
Catalan
oncocercosi
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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.
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