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Descriptor English:

Onchocerciasis, Ocular

Descriptor Spanish:

Oncocercosis Ocular

Descriptor Portuguese:

Oncocercose Ocular

Synonyms English:

River Blindness

Tree Number:

C03.300.562
C03.335.508.700.750.361.699.500
C11.294.725.562

Definition English:

Filarial infection of the eyes transmitted from person to person by bites of Onchocerca volvulus-infected black flies. The microfilariae of Onchocerca are thus deposited beneath the skin. They migrate through various tissues including the eye. Those persons infected have impaired vision and up to 20% are blind. The incidence of eye lesions has been reported to be as high as 30% in Central America and parts of Africa.

Indexing Annotation English:

/drug ther: consider FILARICIDES

History Note English:

Allowable Qualifiers English:

blood	cerebrospinal fluid
chemically induced	classification
congenital	complications
diet therapy	diagnosis
drug therapy	economics
ethnology	embryology
enzymology	epidemiology
etiology	genetics
history	immunology
metabolism	microbiology
mortality	nursing
pathology	prevention & control
physiopathology	parasitology
psychology	radiography
rehabilitation	radionuclide imaging
radiotherapy	surgery
therapy	transmission
urine	ultrasonography
veterinary	virology

Record Number:

24813

Unique Identifier:

D015827

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