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Serological and parasitological assessment of onchocerciasis transmission and associated factors at Abeshige district, Guragae zone, Southwest Ethiopia: Cross-sectional study

2023-02-03

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background</bold>: One of the crippling neglected tropical diseases, onchocerciasis (river blindness), is caused on by the skin-dwelling filarial nematode <italic>Onchocerca volvulus</italic>, an important vector-borne neglected tropical disease transmitted by the bite of infected black fly. The adult worm lives in the subcutaneous tissues producing thousands of microfilariae that...

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6fe29c81-dd46-505c-9c15-df1857f25d98
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10.21203/rs.3.rs-2541857/v1
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