Dracunculiasis Eradication: Are We There Yet?

This report summarizes the status of the global Dracunculiasis Eradication Program as of the end of 2017. Dracunculiasis (guinea worm disease) has been eliminated from 19 of 21 countries where it was endemic in 1986, when an estimated 3.5 million cases occurred worldwide. Only Chad and Ethiopia repo...

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Autores principales: Hopkins, Donald R., Ruiz-Tiben, Ernesto, Eberhard, Mark L., Weiss, Adam, Withers, P. Craig, Roy, Sharon L., Sienko, Dean G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6090361/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29869608
http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.18-0204
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author Hopkins, Donald R.
Ruiz-Tiben, Ernesto
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Withers, P. Craig
Roy, Sharon L.
Sienko, Dean G.
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description This report summarizes the status of the global Dracunculiasis Eradication Program as of the end of 2017. Dracunculiasis (guinea worm disease) has been eliminated from 19 of 21 countries where it was endemic in 1986, when an estimated 3.5 million cases occurred worldwide. Only Chad and Ethiopia reported cases in humans, 15 each, in 2017. Infections of animals, mostly domestic dogs, with Dracunculus medinensis were reported in those two countries and also in Mali. Insecurity and infections in animals are the two main obstacles remaining to interrupting dracunculiasis transmission completely.
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spelling pubmed-60903612018-08-21 Dracunculiasis Eradication: Are We There Yet? Hopkins, Donald R. Ruiz-Tiben, Ernesto Eberhard, Mark L. Weiss, Adam Withers, P. Craig Roy, Sharon L. Sienko, Dean G. Am J Trop Med Hyg Articles This report summarizes the status of the global Dracunculiasis Eradication Program as of the end of 2017. Dracunculiasis (guinea worm disease) has been eliminated from 19 of 21 countries where it was endemic in 1986, when an estimated 3.5 million cases occurred worldwide. Only Chad and Ethiopia reported cases in humans, 15 each, in 2017. Infections of animals, mostly domestic dogs, with Dracunculus medinensis were reported in those two countries and also in Mali. Insecurity and infections in animals are the two main obstacles remaining to interrupting dracunculiasis transmission completely. The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2018-08 2018-06-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6090361/ /pubmed/29869608 http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.18-0204 Text en © The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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