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 ...

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 ...

Onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, is a parasitic disease caused by the filarial nematode Onchocerca volvulus (O. volvulus). River blindness is on the World Health Organization’s list of ...

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 ...

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 ...

image: The parasite that causes river blindness infects about 37 million people in parts of Africa and Latin America, causing blindness and other major eye and skin diseases in about 5 million of them ...

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 ...

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 ...

The tiny worm that causes river blindness, Onchocerca volvulus, is a classic parasite. It infects a person via the bite of black flies, survives in a body for up to 15 years, and upholds the cardinal ...