Concept information
Terme préférentiel
onchocerciasis
Définition(s)
- The world's second leading infectious cause of blindness, onchocerciasis affects 17.7 million people, 99 percent of whom live in Africa. A parasitic disease caused by the filiarial worm, Onchocerca volvulus, onchocerciasis is transmitted from human to human through the bite of infected Simulium black flies. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Health; Onchocerciasis]
Concept(s) générique(s)
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-J8KRMT8K-D
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