Elimination of onchocerciasis from Africa: possible?
| Autor: | Adrian Hopkins, Charles D. Mackenzie, Mamoun M. A. Homeida, Joni Lawrence |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Latin Americans
Drug Resistance Onchocerciasis Insect Control Ivermectin medicine Animals Humans Simuliidae Socioeconomics Disease Elimination Anthelmintics Blindness business.industry medicine.disease Disease control Insect Vectors Infectious Diseases Parasitic disease Vector (epidemiology) Immunology Africa Parasitology business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Trends in parasitology. 28(1) |
| ISSN: | 1471-5007 |
| Popis: | Human onchocerciasis, a parasitic disease found in 28 African countries, six Latin American countries and Yemen, causes blindness and severe dermatological problems. In 1987, efforts to control this infection shifted from vector approaches to include the mass distribution of ivermectin – a drug donated by Merck & Co. for disease control in Africa and for disease elimination in the Americas. Currently, almost 25 years later, with the Americas being highly successful and now approaching elimination, new evidence points towards the possibility of successful elimination in Africa. We suggest several major changes in the programmatic approach that through focused goal-directed effort could achieve global elimination of onchocerciasis by 2025. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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