eRAM
encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine
| Disease | onchocerciasis |
| Comorbidity | C0042961|volvulus |
| Sentences | 5 |
| PubMedID- 22919073 | This includes filarial pathogens such as onchocerca volvulus, the cause of human onchocerciasis, or river blindness. |
| PubMedID- 25569240 | Onchocerca volvulus, the etiological agent of “river blindness”, remains a major public health threat in much of africa and in a cross-border focus between venezuela and brazil [1]. |
| PubMedID- 24551249 | Most species exhibit a marked host specificity, and this includes the important medical filariae such as onchocerca volvulus, the causative agent of river blindness, and wuchereria bancrofti, one of the filariae responsible for lymphatic filariasis or elephantiasis. |
| PubMedID- 22709878 | O. lupi nematode infestation in humans (8) and its biologic and pathogenic affinity with onchocerca volvulus, the agent of river blindness, heightened the interest of d.o. |
| PubMedID- 22541132 | Background: among ocular vector-borne pathogens, onchocerca volvulus, the agent of the so-called "river blindness", affects about 37 million people globally. |
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