River blindness vaccine to begin cattle trials
A new vaccine with the potential to prevent millions of cases of blindness is a step closer to commercialisation.
A new vaccine with the potential to prevent millions of cases of blindness is a step closer to commercialisation.
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Dec 6, 2016
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Scientists have sequenced the genome of the parasitic worm responsible for causing onchocerciasis—an eye and skin infection more commonly known as river blindness. Through their work, researchers have gained insight into ...
Biotechnology
Nov 21, 2016
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Certain blackflies can cause river blindness in humans. But which ones? Wageningen University candidate Luis Miguel Hernandez systematized the relationships within the blackfly subgenus Trichodagmia and came up with some ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 11, 2011
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The team found that a bacterium inside the worm acts as a 'disguise' for the parasite, resulting in the immune system reacting to it in an ineffective way. The bacteria protect the worm from the body's natural defences, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 12, 2011
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In a major breakthrough that comes after decades of research and nearly half a billion treatments in humans, scientists have finally unlocked how a key anti-parasitic drug kills the worms brought on by the filarial diseases ...
Biochemistry
Nov 10, 2010
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How parasites use different life-history strategies to beat our immune systems may also provide insight into the control of diseases, such as elephantiasis and river blindness, which afflict some of the world's poorest communities ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 19, 2010
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Researchers are reporting the first identification of a "magic potion" of proteins in the saliva of the black fly that help this blood-sucking pest spread parasites that cause "river blindness," a devastating eye-disease. ...
Biochemistry
Apr 6, 2009
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