Loa loa
Environmental factors associated with the distribution of Loa loa vectors Chrysops spp in Central and West Africa: seeing the forest for the trees
... Loa loa (Cobbold, 1864) is a filarial nematode that causes infection and disease commonly known as loiasis, or Af- rican eye worm [1, ...2]. Loa loa is mainly transmitted by two tabanid flies ...
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Macrofilaricidal activity after doxycycline only treatment of Onchocerca volvulus in an area of Loa loa co-endemicity: a randomized controlled trial.
... L. loa co-infected individuals was as expected due to exclusion of patients with ...in Loa loa microfilaridermia from baseline at 4 months, 12 months and 21 months post treatment with doxycycline + ...
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Bivariate geostatistical modelling of the relationship between Loa loa prevalence and intensity of infection
... The structure of the paper is the following. In Section 2, we review available methods and recent advances in the modelling of count data that exhibit zero-inflation. In Section 3, we introduce a bivariate geostatistical ...
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Loa loa vectors Chrysops spp : perspectives on research, distribution, bionomics, and implications for elimination of lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis
... L. loa co-endemic ...L. loa vectors ...L. loa transmission included personal repellents, household screening, indoor residual spraying, community-based environmental management, adulticiding and ...
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<em>Loa loa </em>infection detection using biomarkers: current perspectives
... Abstract: Loa loa is originally a restricted filarial worm from central Africa and some west African ...L. loa is a major obstacle in the control of other filarial worms in areas where these filariae ...
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Effect of flubendazole on developing stages of Loa loa in vitro and in vivo: a new approach for screening filaricidal agents
... Loiasis, a neglected tropical disease (NTD), is endemic in the rainforest areas of the central and western Africa [1], where it generally causes minimal pathology [2] that includes localized mild to moderate pruritus, ...
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Rapid, Novel, Specific, High Throughput Assay for Diagnosis of Loa loa Infection
... diagnose Loa loa infection readily and accurately remains a demanding ...L. loa infection, a LIPS assay was developed based on immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgG4 subclass antibodies to a recombinant ...
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Rapid integrated clinical survey to determine prevalence and co distribution patterns of lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis in a Loa loa co endemic area: The Angolan experience
... parasite Loa loa (loiasis) is a signi fi cant impediment, due to the risk of severe adverse events (SAEs) associated with ivermectin used in mass drug administration (MDA) ...
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Loop Mediated Isothermal Amplification for Rapid and Semiquantitative Detection of Loa loa Infection
... of Loa loa microfilaria (mf), so that these individuals may be excluded from mass ivermectin administration campaigns against onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis being conducted in areas where ...
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Evaluation of in vitro culture systems for the maintenance of microfilariae and infective larvae of Loa loa
... tode Loa loa that is transmitted through the bite of an infected Chrysops ...L. loa is associated with severe and sometimes fatal encephalopathic reactions in patients who had taken ivermectin for ...
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Discovery of Specific Antigens That Can Predict Microfilarial Intensity in Loa loa Infection
... parasite Loa loa, affects ⬃ 14 million people in Central and West Africa ...L. loa infection has gained importance over the past 20 years because of its negative impact on the elimination programs ...
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Increasing evidence of low lymphatic filariasis prevalence in high risk Loa loa areas in Central and West Africa: a literature review
... for Loa loa, in order to implement the appropriate strategies to scale-up interventions for the elimination of lymphatic filariasis ...L. loa microfilaraemia, the current strategy recommended by the ...
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Filaricidal activities on Onchocerca ochengi and Loa loa, toxicity and phytochemical screening of extracts of Tragia benthami and Piper umbellatum
... worm, Loa loa, prevalent mainly in the rain forests of West and Central Africa is not as severe as the other filariasis and is consequently less well studied [3, ...L. loa and ...
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Prevalence and intensity of Loa loa infection over twenty three years in three communities of the Mbalmayo health district (Central Cameroon)
... Loiasis, better known as the African eye worm, is a parasitic disease caused by the filarial nematode Loa loa and transmitted to humans by tabanids belong- ing to the genus Chrysops . Chrysops dimidiata and ...
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Further evidence of the cross reactivity of the Binax NOW® Filariasis ICT cards to non Wuchereria bancrofti filariae: experimental studies with Loa loa and Onchocerca ochengi
... Loa loa infective larvae Engorged Chrysops spp. flies were trapped from loiasis endemic areas and transported to the laboratory where they were maintained for 14 days (time for the microfilariae to develop ...
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Environmental factors associated with the distribution of Loa loa vectors Chrysops spp in Central and West Africa: seeing the forest for the trees
... Loa loa (Cobbold, 1864) is a filarial nematode that causes infection and disease commonly known as loiasis, or Af- rican eye worm [1, ...2]. Loa loa is mainly transmitted by two tabanid flies ...
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Identification and Validation of Loa loa Microfilaria Specific Biomarkers: a Rational Design Approach Using Proteomics and Novel Immunoassays
... quantify Loa loa microfilariae ...a Loa mf-infected patient and used this information to identify putative biomarkers produced by ...L. loa mf. In total, 70 of the 15,444 described putative L. ...
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The Population Biology and Transmission Dynamics of Loa loa
... [291_TD$DIFF] Loa loa (Cobbold, 1864), which is transmitted from human to human by tabanid fl ies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of the genus Chrysops, causes loiasis, a pathological condition often labelled as ‘ ...
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Loa loa vectors Chrysops spp : perspectives on research, distribution, bionomics, and implications for elimination of lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis
... L. loa co-endemic ...L. loa vectors ...L. loa transmission included personal repellents, household screening, indoor residual spraying, community-based environmental management, adulticiding and ...
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A practical approach for scaling up the alternative strategy for the elimination of lymphatic filariasis in Loa loa endemic countries developing an action plan
... L. loa infection is present and onchocer- ciasis (oncho) is non-endemic or hypo-endemic (defined as less than 20% of nodule prevalence), MDA should be imple- mented with biannual albendazole in combination with ...
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