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Preliminary evaluations of 3-dimensional human skin models for their ability to facilitate in vitro the long-term development of the debilitating obligatory human parasite Onchocerca volvulus

Onchocerciasis also known as river blindness is a neglected tropical disease and the world's second-leading infectious cause of blindness in humans; it is caused by Onchocerca volvulus. Current treatment with ivermectin targets microfilariae and transmission and does not kill the adult parasite...

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Autores principales: Malkmus, Christoph, Jawahar, Shabnam, Tricoche, Nancy, Lustigman, Sara, Hansmann, Jan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7671495/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33151944
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008503