Infection with the filaria Onchocerca volvulus; results in skin tumours, papular dermatitis, and ocular complications.
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Examples for "onchocerciasis"
Examples for "onchocerciasis"
1Mass treatment with IVM is an integral component of the onchocerciasis control programmes.
2Bovine nodular onchocercomata represent an interesting model for human onchocerciasis.
3As response to an endemic disease, programs have focused on the control of onchocerciasis transmission.
4First, mild-to-moderate chronic inflammatory cellular infiltration was present in the conjunctiva of the onchocerciasis patients.
5River blindness or onchocerciasis is an eye and skin disease caused by the filaria worm.
1He was also involved in a campaign to eliminate river blindness in West Africa.
2Since 2009 the WHO's focus on river blindness has shifted from treatment to elimination.
3The eye disease is also known as river blindness.
4Filariae cause diseases including: lymphatic filariasis with distressing and disturbing symptoms like elephantiasis; and river blindness.
5Some of those diseases-likepolio, Guinea worm, and river blindness-currentlycause only a handful of cases.