Similar words: choledocholithiasis, trichomoniasis, cholelithiasis, hypochondriasis, bronchoconstriction, bronchiectasis, candidiasis, mydriasis. Meaning: n. infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas; when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness; common in Africa and tropical America.
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1. Onchocerciasis is limited to six Latin American countries.
2. AIM: To compare the intraocular pressure distribution in onchocerciasis hyperendemic communities with the intraocular pressure distribution in a hypoendemiccommunity.
3. The history of the onchocerciasis control programme provides another instructive example.
4. River blindness (onchocerciasis) has been eliminated as a public health problem.
5. Dengue, filariasis, leishmaniasis , onchocerciasis, and American trypanosomiasis ( Chagas disease ) are other diseases carried by insects.
6. A study published this month has raised hopes of developing a vaccine against river blindness (onchocerciasis) — a major disease in West and Central Africa as well as parts of Latin America.
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7. To determine the extent to which the community-directed approach used in onchocerciasis control in Africa could effectively and efficiently provide integrated delivery of other health interventions.
8. Over 100 million people are at risk of infection with onchocerciasis in Africa and a few small areas in the Americas and Yemen.
9. A clinical trial is being launched in three African countries of a drug that could eliminate onchocerciasis, or river blindness, one of the leading infectious causes of blindness across Africa.
10. Any of a genus (Simulium) of black flies, several species of which transmit the parasitic filarial worms that cause onchocerciasis.
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