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onchocerciasis       Search catalogue 294930345

STA
Approved

UPD
2012-03-23

DUT
rivierblindheid

IND
1

MIS
also called onchocercosisfilarial disease caused by a parasitic worm (Onchocerca volvulus), which is transmitted to humans by the bite of the black fly. Probably the best-known form of onchocerciasis is also known as river blindness. It has this name because the flies that transmit the disease breed on rivers and mostly affect riverine populations. Other symptoms of the disease include changes in skin pigmentation, dermal swelling, papules, and lichenification of the skin (E.B.)

PPN
294930345

UDC
616.42 617.75 617.751.9

MRF
616.99

BT1
parasitic diseases
tropical diseases

UF
oncho
river blindness

BSO
08.01.02 ILLNESS AND DISEASE

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