… (or river blindness) was one of the most common infectious causes of blindness in the world.
Primarily an infection of Africa, with limited distribution in the new world, disease due to the …

… one of the most successful human disease control program in history—the control of
onchocerciasis (or river blindness) in West Africa. In this 29-year-old program, conservation of the …

… in control of the transmission of this infectious disease. By development, adjustment and …
This review contributes to a deeper comprehension of this disease by a tissue-dwelling …

… the parasitic worms that cause river blindness, according to the … But in this case - the
centuries-old torment of river blindness -… of river blindness have no illusions about the disease's …

Here we analyze patterns of human infection with Onchocerca volvulus (the cause of river
blindness) in different continents and ecologies. In contrast with some geohelminths and …

… river blindness) is one of the few neglected tropical diseases … With the change in focus from
elimination of the disease … control has been launched, the disease will have to compete with …

… old, patients with severe disease of the heart, liver, kidney or central nervous system, and
any individual or population at high risk of diseases (… at high risk of river blindness, and will …

… indicator of active onchocercal infection and could be indicative of either old disease or
due to other common causes of chorioretinitis (eg, Histoplasma, Toxoplasma and others). …

… -old African man presented for excision of a dermal nodule after a diagnosis of ocular
onchocerciasis (river blindness)… patient was referred to the infectious diseases clinic, where further …

… depicting a young boy leading a not so-old blind man with a stick, imagine the prospect of
… (MDP) to treat river blindness in coun tries where the disease is endemic was announced …