Background Like other tropical African countries, Gabon is afflicted by many parasitic
diseases, including filariases such as loiasis and mansonellosis. This study aimed to assess …

Mansonellosis counts among the most prevalent and most neglected human filariases. This
vector-borne parasite infection with species-dependent geographical distribution is …

Mansonellosis is endemic in several regions of Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
Mansonella ozzardi and Mansonella perstans have been reported in Latin America …

Mansonella spp. have been reported to have a wide global distribution. Despite the
distribution and co-occurrence with other filarial parasites like Wuchereria bancrofti …

Human mansonellosis is caused by M. perstans, M. ozzardi and M. streptocerca, the three
main filarial species in the genus Mansonella. Despite accumulating evidence of a high …

Mansonella ozzardi and Mansonella perstans infections both cause mansonellosis but are
usually treated differently. Using a real-time polymerase chain reaction assay and deep …

We obtained ribosomal and mitochondrial DNA sequences from residents of Amazonas
state, Brazil, with Mansonella parasitemias. Phylogenetic analysis of these sequences …

Introduction Mansonella species are filarial parasites that infect humans worldwide.
Although these infections are common, knowledge of the pathology and diversity of the …

Human filariasis caused by Mansonella ozzardi is a parasitic infection of a controversial
pathology and poorly studied in Argentina. The aim of this study was not only to obtain data …

Background Mansonellosis was first reported in Ghana by Awadzi in the 1990s. Co-
infections of Mansonella perstans have also been reported in a small cohort of patients with …