High Prevalence of Mansonella ozzardi Infection in the Amazon Region, Ecuador

Autor: Carlos Chiluisa-Guacho, Alberto Toapanta, Manuel Calvopiña, Irina Villacres, David Fonseca
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Male
Epidemiology
vector-borne infections
lcsh:Medicine
Polymerase Chain Reaction
High Prevalence of Mansonella ozzardi Infection in the Amazon Region
Ecuador
0302 clinical medicine
Amazon Region
Parasite hosting
Public Health Surveillance
030212 general & internal medicine
Geography
Medical
filariasis
integumentary system
biology
endemicity
Amazon rainforest
Dispatch
Mansonelliasis
Mansonella
Infectious Diseases
Mansonella ozzardi
Female
Ecuador
Microbiology (medical)
food.ingredient
prevalence
030231 tropical medicine
parasites
lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases
Filariasis
03 medical and health sciences
Mansonella Ozzardi Infection
food
parasitic diseases
medicine
Animals
Humans
lcsh:RC109-216
lcsh:R
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
Virology
infection
zoonoses
mansonelliasis
nematodes
Nested polymerase chain reaction
Zdroj: Emerging Infectious Diseases
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 25, Iss 11, Pp 2081-2083 (2019)
ISSN: 1080-6059
1080-6040
Popis: We reviewed Giemsa-stained thick blood smears, obtained through the national malaria surveillance program in the Amazon region of Ecuador, by light microscopy for Mansonella spp. microfilariae. Of 2,756 slides examined, 566 (20.5%) were positive. Nested PCR confirmed that the microfilariae were those of M. ozzardi nematodes, indicating that this parasite is endemic to this region.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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