Dracunculiasis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dracunculiasis, more commonly known as Guinea worm disease (GWD), Dracontiasis, :437 or Medina Worm, is a parasitic infection caused by the nematode ...
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Division of Parasitic Diseases - Dracunculiasis
Learn about Guinea worm disease and its public health significance.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/dracunculiasis/defau...
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Dracunculiasis: Parasitic Infections: Merck Manual Home Edition
Dracunculiasis is infection caused by the roundworm Dracunculus medinensis. It causes a painful, inflamed skin sore and debilitating arthritis. ...
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DRACUNCULIASIS
21 May 2001 ... Today, dracunculiasis, more commonly known as Guinea Worm Disease, is only found in 13 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. ...
http://www.stanford.edu/class/humbio103/ParaSites2001/dracun...
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Progress Toward Global Eradication of Dracunculiasis, January ...
In 1986, when the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution calling for the eradication of dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease), an estimated 3.5 million
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Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease) and the eradication initiative.
Dracunculiasis, also known as guinea worm disease, is caused by the large female of the nematode Dracunculus medinensis, which emerges painfully and slowly ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11932231...
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Progress Toward Global Eradication of Dracunculiasis, January 2005 ...
16 Aug 2007 ... The World Health Assembly first adopted a resolution calling for the eradication of dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease) in 1986, ...
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Filarial Nematode Infections: Nematodes (Roundworms): Merck Manual ...
Dracunculiasis is infection with Dracunculus medinensis. Symptoms are a painful, inflamed skin lesion containing an adult worm ...
http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec14/ch182/ch182e.html...
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Strategies for dracunculiasis eradication.
In 1991 the Forty-fourth World Health Assembly declared the goal of eradicating dracunculiasis (guinea worm disease) by the end of 1995. ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2393261/...
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Progress Toward Global Eradication of Dracunculiasis: Abstract and ...
2 Nov 2009 ... Abstract and Introduction: Despite a 1986 global campaign to eradicate Guinea worm disease, the parasitic infection remains endemic in six ...
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