 Onchocerca volvulus
"Onchocerca volvulus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A species of parasitic nematodes widely distributed throughout central Africa and also found in northern South America, southern Mexico, and Guatemala. Its intermediate host and vector is the blackfly or buffalo gnat.
| Descriptor ID |
D017181
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.500.294.400.937.463.510.850
|
| Concept/Terms |
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Onchocerca volvulus".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Onchocerca volvulus".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Onchocerca volvulus" by people in this website by year, and whether "Onchocerca volvulus" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
To return to the timeline, click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Onchocerca volvulus" by people in Profiles.
-
Bennuru S, Oduro-Boateng G, Osigwe C, Del Valle P, Golden A, Ogawa GM, Cama V, Lustigman S, Nutman TB. Integrating Multiple Biomarkers to Increase Sensitivity for the Detection of Onchocerca volvulus Infection. J Infect Dis. 2020 05 11; 221(11):1805-1815.
-
Poole CB, Li Z, Alhassan A, Guelig D, Diesburg S, Tanner NA, Zhang Y, Evans TC, LaBarre P, Wanji S, Burton RA, Carlow CK. Colorimetric tests for diagnosis of filarial infection and vector surveillance using non-instrumented nucleic acid loop-mediated isothermal amplification (NINA-LAMP). PLoS One. 2017; 12(2):e0169011.
-
Kampk?tter A, Volkmann TE, de Castro SH, Leiers B, Klotz LO, Johnson TE, Link CD, Henkle-D?hrsen K. Functional analysis of the glutathione S-transferase 3 from Onchocerca volvulus (Ov-GST-3): a parasite GST confers increased resistance to oxidative stress in Caenorhabditis elegans. J Mol Biol. 2003 Jan 03; 325(1):25-37.
|
People  People who have written about this concept. _
Similar Concepts
People who have written about this concept.
_
Top Journals
Top journals in which articles about this concept have been published.
|