Despite decades of research, scientists have yet to pinpoint the exact cause of nodding syndrome (NS), a disabling disease affecting African children. A new report suggests that blackflies infected ...

More than 21 million people in Africa are infected with the nematode Onchocerca volvulus, the cause of river blindness. Around one in ten of those affected goes blind. Parasitologists at the ...

Onchocerciasis is a parasitic infection brings about skin lesions and severe eye damage and that can lead to irreversible blindness. Fertility-change associated genetic selection in parasite ...

Scientists have for the first time fully sequenced the genome of onchocerca volvulus, the parasitic worm that causes river blindness. This has allowed them to identify a number of proteins that could ...

Onchocerciasis (river blindness) is an eye and skin disease caused by a worm (filaria) called Onchocerca volvulus. The disease is transmitted to humans through the bite of a blackfly (simulium species ...

River blindness is a common chronic infectious neglected disease that blights many communities near water in remote areas of the Amazon basin in South America and in Africa. It is caused by the worm ...

Moxidectin, a macrocyclic lactone, is an anthelmintic drug that selectively binds to the parasite's glutamate-gated chloride ion channels. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ...

London, United Kingdom, October 2, 2014 – Despite decades of research, scientists have yet to pinpoint the exact cause of nodding syndrome (NS), a disabling disease affecting African children. A new ...