Could antibiotics cure river blindness? by Walgate Robert

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Could antibiotics cure river blindness? by Robert Walgate

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River blindness: reducing the prevalence of clinical disease by Charles Mackenzie, Martin Kollmann, Sabine Specht, Yao Sodhalon

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28-year river blindness campaign celebrates completion

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From river blindness control to elimination: bridge over troubled water by Robert Colebunders, Maria-Gloria Basáñez, Katja Siling, Rory J. Post, Anke Rotsaert, Bruno Mmbando, Patrick Suykerbuyk, Adrian Hopkins

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Financial and Economic Costs of the Elimination and Eradication of Onchocerciasis (River Blindness) in Africa. by Young Eun Kim, Elisa Sicuri, Fabrizio Tediosi

“…BACKGROUND:Onchocerciasis (river blindness) is a parasitic disease transmitted by blackflies. …”
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Modelling the Spread of River Blindness Disease via the Caputo Fractional Derivative and the Beta-derivative by Abdon Atangana, Rubayyi T. Alqahtani

Subjects: “…river blindness disease…”
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Modelling the elimination of river blindness using long-term epidemiological and programmatic data from Mali and Senegal by Martin Walker, Wilma A. Stolk, Matthew A. Dixon, Christian Bottomley, Lamine Diawara, Mamadou O. Traoré, Sake J. de Vlas, María-Gloria Basáñez

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Verification of the reactivity of immunoglobulins in dried blood spots collected for onchocerciasis sero-surveillance by an Escherichia coli ELISA by Hassan K. Hassan, Kristi M. Miley, Thomas R. Unnasch

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Rapid Epidemiological Assessment of Onchocerciasis in a Tropical Semi-Urban Community, Enugu State, Nigeria by Je Eyo, Gc Onyishi, Cu Ugokwe

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Co-Administration of Adjuvanted Recombinant <i>Ov</i>-103 and <i>Ov</i>-RAL-2 Vaccines Confer Protection against Natural Challenge in A Bovine <i>Onchocerca ochengi</i> Infection M... by Lisa Luu, Germanus S. Bah, Ndode Herman Okah-Nnane, Catherine S. Hartley, Alexandra F. Glover, Tessa R. Walsh, Lu-Yun Lian, Bin Zhan, Maria Elena Bottazzi, David Abraham, Nikolai Petrovsky, Nicolas Bayang, Bernard Tangwa, Rene Billingwe Ayiseh, Glory Enjong Mbah, David D. Ekale, Vincent N. Tanya, Sara Lustigman, Benjamin L. Makepeace, John Graham-Brown

Subjects: “…river blindness…”
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The river blindness drug Ivermectin and related macrocyclic lactones inhibit WNT‐TCF pathway responses in human cancer by Alice Melotti, Christophe Mas, Monika Kuciak, Aiala Lorente‐Trigos, Isabel Borges, Ariel Ruiz i Altaba

“…Given that Ivermectin is a safe anti‐parasitic agent used by > 200 million people against river blindness, our results suggest its additional use as a therapeutic WNT‐TCF pathway response blocker to treat WNT‐TCF‐dependent diseases including multiple cancers.…”
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Onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy in Maridi, South Sudan: Modelling and exploring the impact of control measures against river blindness. by Samit Bhattacharyya, Natalie V S Vinkeles Melchers, Joseph N Siewe Fodjo, Amit Vutha, Luc E Coffeng, Makoy Y Logora, Robert Colebunders, Wilma A Stolk

“…<h4>Background</h4>Onchocerciasis, also known as "river blindness", is caused by the bite of infected female blackflies (genus Simuliidae) that transmit the parasite Onchocerca volvulus. …”
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Modelling the impact of ivermectin on River Blindness and its burden of morbidity and mortality in African Savannah: EpiOncho projections by Hugo C Turner, Martin Walker, Thomas S Churcher, María-Gloria Basáñez

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An Integrated Approach to Identify New Anti-Filarial Leads to Treat River Blindness, a Neglected Tropical Disease by Rahul Tyagi, Christina A. Bulman, Fidelis Cho-Ngwa, Chelsea Fischer, Chris Marcellino, Michelle R. Arkin, James H. McKerrow, Case W. McNamara, Matthew Mahoney, Nancy Tricoche, Shabnam Jawahar, James W. Janetka, Sara Lustigman, Judy Sakanari, Makedonka Mitreva

“…Filarial worms cause multiple debilitating diseases in millions of people worldwide, including river blindness. Currently available drugs reduce transmission by killing larvae (microfilariae), but there are no effective cures targeting the adult parasites (macrofilaricides) which survive and reproduce in the host for very long periods. …”
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Solving river blindness disease in terms of progression by using SIR / Mohd Rahimie Md Noor... [et al.] by Md Noor, Mohd Rahimie, Hamiri, Siti Khadijah, Anak Langgar@Jimun, Donna, Syed Adnan, Sharifah Athirah, Nafi, Mohd Noor Azam, Mohamad, Roslim

“…River blindness disease has become a major problem in Northern Nigeria, Africa especially in a rural agricultural land located to a nearby river edge. …”
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Short- and Long-Range Dispersal by Members of the <i>Simulium damnosum</i> Complex (Diptera: Simuliidae), Vectors of Onchocerciasis: A Review by Robert A. Cheke, Frances M. Hawkes, Manuela Carnaghi

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Emodepside: the anthelmintic’s mode of action and toxicity by Charity N. Njeshi, Alan P. Robertson, Richard J. Martin

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Creative use of the priority review voucher by public and not-for-profit actors delivers the first new FDA-approved treatment for river blindness in 20 years. by Piero L Olliaro, Annette C Kuesel, Christine M Halleux, Mark Sullivan, John C Reeder

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Creative use of the priority review voucher by public and not-for-profit actors delivers the first new FDA-approved treatment for river blindness in 20 years by Olliaro, P, Kuesel, A, Halleux, C, Sullivan, M, Reeder, J