Sentences with phrase «of lymphatic filariasis»

A major challenge facing mass drug administration (MDA) programmes targeting the control and elimination of lymphatic filariasis or onchocerciasis is the serious adverse - sometimes life threatening - reactions that this treatment can have on people who are also infected with loisasis.

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But the system has seen success in some areas recently, like limiting the spread of HIV and lymphatic filariasis.

While medications currently exist to treat lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis, the two main diseases caused by filarial nematodes, the drugs are insufficient to eliminate the diseases by 2020 and researchers project that resistance will arise to some of the drugs.

On Monday, the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to William Campbell of Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, and AAAS member Satoshi Ōmura of Kitasato University in Tokyo, who will share half the prize for discovering the drug avermectin, which has been used to treat river blindness and lymphatic filariasis as well as other parasitic diseases.

Urbanization and the resulting shrinkage of green spaces in cities can be considered a boon for mosquitoes that transmit diseases, such as Aedes aegypti (dengue) and Culex quinquefasciatus (lymphatic filariasis).

Use of this technology to exclude patients from ivermectin - based treatment at the point of care in Loa - endemic regions would allow resumption / expansion of mass drug administration programs for onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis in Central Africa.

Clinical samples from two groups of individuals from the south Pacific island of Mauke and from Ecuador — one group infected with filarial worms causing lymphatic filariasis and a second group infected with intestinal roundworms Ascaris — revealed increased levels of resistin in the infected individuals compared to those who were uninfected or immune.

Janssen GPH will also prioritise work with the International Partnership for Microbicides developing the investigational drug dapivirine for use as a monthly vaginal microbicidal ring designed to prevent sexual transmission of HIV and continue its pact with Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative for the preclinical research of a reformulated form of flubendazole for lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis) and onchocerciasis (river blindness), Janssen GPH is also developing a new, chewable formulation of Vermox (mebendazole) that will facilitate treatment of intestinal worms in younger children.

Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is caused by a species of filarial round worms, or nematodes, transmitted by mosquitoes.

Those individuals with high levels of co-infection are the most likely to experience adverse reactions to ivermectin, the deworming drug used to target lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis.

The Tool can visualize the geographical distribution of all of the main preventative chemotherapy (PCT) NTDs: schistosomiasis, soil - transmitted helminths, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis and blinding trachoma.

GAHI shows the geographical distribution of neglected tropical diseases transmitted by worms: soil - transmitted helminthiasis, schistosomiasis, and lymphatic filariasis.

In 1998, Merck expanded the program to include the elimination of another disease, lymphatic filariasis.