‘I could feel the worms’: Neglected victims of Loiasis find hope in a remote research ...
Ms Badolé suffers from loiasis, a chronic filarial disease caused by the Loa loa parasite, also known as the African eye worm ...
Nature5 年
Filarial factors promote lymphatic growth
malayi nematodes induced proliferation of LECs. Similarly, serum from patients infected with filarial nematodes could induce proliferation of LECs, suggesting that the filarial antigens or the ...
Smith College3 个月
Steven Williams
Pilotte N, Thomas T, Zulch MF, Sirois AR, Minetti C, Reimer LJ, Williams SA, Saunders LJ. Targeting a highly repetitive genomic sequence for sensitive and specific molecular detection of the filarial ...
Royal Society of Chemistry7 个月
A∙WOL antifilarial drug discovery team
These two neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are caused by long-lived (10–14 years) parasitic nematodes (roundworms). The filarial worms rely on a special type of bacteria, Wolbachia. The Liverpool ...