Tuberculosis
... tuberculosis annually. 2,000,000 people die annually from tuberculosis. In 2004, worldwide there were 14.6 million people with active TB disease, with 9 million new cases being presented that year. The world’s greatest infectious killer of women of reproductive age, and the leading cause of death am ...
... tuberculosis annually. 2,000,000 people die annually from tuberculosis. In 2004, worldwide there were 14.6 million people with active TB disease, with 9 million new cases being presented that year. The world’s greatest infectious killer of women of reproductive age, and the leading cause of death am ...
Information for contacts of tuberculosis
... A simple test called a Tuberculin or Mantoux skin test can tell if someone has been infected with the TB germ. This test involves a small injection under the skin of the left forearm. People who have a positive skin test can have further tests such as a chest x-ray, to look at the lungs, or a blood ...
... A simple test called a Tuberculin or Mantoux skin test can tell if someone has been infected with the TB germ. This test involves a small injection under the skin of the left forearm. People who have a positive skin test can have further tests such as a chest x-ray, to look at the lungs, or a blood ...
Life Sciences Issue 5: Parasites
... Plasmodium species are the most infamous as the causative agents of malaria. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), half of the World’s population live at risk of malaria infection and almost 655,000 people died from malaria in 2010, most of them children under the age of five. By the tim ...
... Plasmodium species are the most infamous as the causative agents of malaria. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), half of the World’s population live at risk of malaria infection and almost 655,000 people died from malaria in 2010, most of them children under the age of five. By the tim ...
Filariae
... Adult worms mature over several months after human infection, and mature females release microfilariae into the circulation for many years. ...
... Adult worms mature over several months after human infection, and mature females release microfilariae into the circulation for many years. ...
staph scalded skin syndrome (ssss)
... * Top layer of skin begins peeling off in sheets, leaving exposed a moist, red and tender area. Other symptoms may include tender and painful areas around the infection site, weakness, and dehydration DIAGNOSIS: Clinical – characteristc rash Culture – of swab/tissue ...
... * Top layer of skin begins peeling off in sheets, leaving exposed a moist, red and tender area. Other symptoms may include tender and painful areas around the infection site, weakness, and dehydration DIAGNOSIS: Clinical – characteristc rash Culture – of swab/tissue ...
Pullorum - albanyanimalscience2008
... chickens caused by a strain of salmonella called salmonella Pullorum Bacterial Most common in young chicks Older chickens can also get infected ...
... chickens caused by a strain of salmonella called salmonella Pullorum Bacterial Most common in young chicks Older chickens can also get infected ...
Lumpy Skin Disease
... flies, ticks, etc.) or by contaminated needles. Some of these could potentially be brought from an infected area on the wind or within vehicles. The particular vectors that will vary between countries and have been little studied. Once arrived in a new area spread is likely to be fastest during peri ...
... flies, ticks, etc.) or by contaminated needles. Some of these could potentially be brought from an infected area on the wind or within vehicles. The particular vectors that will vary between countries and have been little studied. Once arrived in a new area spread is likely to be fastest during peri ...
Dr Martin Walker - Imperial College London
... against onchocerciasis. 38th session of the Technical Consultative Committee of the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso ...
... against onchocerciasis. 38th session of the Technical Consultative Committee of the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso ...
Eliminating onchocerciasis as a public health problem: the
... • A flexible use of mass distribution of ivermectin, which over the years has evolved from mobile strategies used in the early days following ivermectin donation, to various forms of community based treatment. The latest and most widely used of these, also as known as Community Directed Treatment wi ...
... • A flexible use of mass distribution of ivermectin, which over the years has evolved from mobile strategies used in the early days following ivermectin donation, to various forms of community based treatment. The latest and most widely used of these, also as known as Community Directed Treatment wi ...
Global Perspectives of Blindness
... Once a leading cause of preventable blindness, the global disease burden of onchocerciasis, a parasitic infection causing blindness in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Yemen, has been reduced as a result of successful disease control programs led by the W.H.O. Past containment efforts relied on ...
... Once a leading cause of preventable blindness, the global disease burden of onchocerciasis, a parasitic infection causing blindness in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Yemen, has been reduced as a result of successful disease control programs led by the W.H.O. Past containment efforts relied on ...
lecture_22_Mar_05_filarial worms
... Onchocerciasis is a major cause of blindness. Rarely life-threatening, the disease causes chronic suffering and severe disability. In Africa, it constitutes a serious obstacle to socioeconomic development. It is often called river blindness because of its most extreme manifestation and because the ...
... Onchocerciasis is a major cause of blindness. Rarely life-threatening, the disease causes chronic suffering and severe disability. In Africa, it constitutes a serious obstacle to socioeconomic development. It is often called river blindness because of its most extreme manifestation and because the ...
Classification
... In the African and Venezuelan strains these nodules usually form near the pelvic area, with some occurring at the spine, the neck and the knees. In infections found in Central America these nodules primarily form above the waist, mostly on the neck and head. The number of nodules formed varies from ...
... In the African and Venezuelan strains these nodules usually form near the pelvic area, with some occurring at the spine, the neck and the knees. In infections found in Central America these nodules primarily form above the waist, mostly on the neck and head. The number of nodules formed varies from ...
River Blindness Fact Sheet
... the bite of an infected blackfly. Also called River Blindness because the transmission is most intense in remote African rural agricultural villages, located near rapidly flowing streams. Persons with heavy infections will usually have one or more of the three conditions: dermatitis, eye lesions, an ...
... the bite of an infected blackfly. Also called River Blindness because the transmission is most intense in remote African rural agricultural villages, located near rapidly flowing streams. Persons with heavy infections will usually have one or more of the three conditions: dermatitis, eye lesions, an ...
Onchocerciasis
Onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness and Robles disease, is a disease caused by infection with the parasitic worm Onchocerca volvulus. Symptoms include severe itching, bumps under the skin, and blindness. It is the second most common cause of blindness due to infection, after trachoma.The parasite worm is spread by the bites of a black fly of the Simulium type. Usually many bites are required before infection occurs. These flies live near rivers, hence the name of the disease. Once inside a person, the worms create larvae that make their way out to the skin. Here they can infect the next black fly that bites the person. There are a number of ways to make the diagnosis including: placing a biopsy of the skin in normal saline and watching for the larva to come out, looking in the eye for larvae, and looking within the bumps under the skin for adult worms.A vaccine against the disease does not exist. Prevention is by avoiding being bitten by flies. This may include the use of insect repellent and proper clothing. Other efforts include those to decrease the fly population by spraying insecticides. Efforts to eradicate the disease by treating entire groups of people twice a year is ongoing in a number of areas of the world. Treatment of those infected is with the medication ivermectin every six to twelve months. This treatment kills the larva but not the adult worms. The medication doxycycline, which kills an associated bacterium called Wolbachia, appears to weaken the worms and is recommended by some as well. Removal of the lumps under the skin by surgery may also be done.About 17 to 25 million people are infected with river blindness, with approximately 0.8 million having some amount of loss of vision. Most infections occur in sub-Saharan Africa, although cases have also been reported in Yemen and isolated areas of Central and South America. In 1915, the physician Rodolfo Robles first linked the worm to eye disease. It is listed by the World Health Organization as a neglected tropical disease.