PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | onchocerciasis |
| Symptom | C0456909|blindness |
| Sentences | 6 |
| PubMedID- 23691275 | onchocerciasis, a leading cause of blindness, is due to human infection with onchocerca volvulus, a parasitic worm that forms nodules under the skin. |
| PubMedID- 21311668 | blindness due to trachoma and onchocerciasis has decreased significantly and the possibility of the elimination of transmission of these two diseases by the year 2020 is within reach. |
| PubMedID- 20345553 | blindness because of onchocerciasis was insignificant, although low rates of chronic onchocercal ocular disease (<2%) were observed. |
| PubMedID- 22540073 | Because of the close association of onchocerciasis with blindness, community-based ivermectin distribution programs have often cited blindness prevention as their primary mission or goal. |
| PubMedID- 21735992 | onchocerciasis-induced blindness prevalence was relatively high in the rain forest and forest savanna zones of cross river and kogi states, cross river having the highest site-specific prevalence (50.0%), followed by kogi (41.7%). |
| PubMedID- 22574885 | The socioeconomic importance of blindness due to onchocerciasis was the main reason for the first multi-partner, international control effort, the onchocerciasis control programme (ocp). |
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