Preliminary evaluations of 3-dimensional human skin models for their ability to facilitate in vitro the long-term development of the debilitating obligatory human parasite Onchocerca volvulus.

Onchocerciasis also known as river blindness is a neglected tropical disease and the world's second-leading infectious cause of blindness in humans; it is caused by Onchocerca volvulus. Current treatment with ivermectin targets microfilariae and transmission and does not kill the adult parasite...

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Main Authors: Christoph Malkmus (Author), Shabnam Jawahar (Author), Nancy Tricoche (Author), Sara Lustigman (Author), Jan Hansmann (Author)
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Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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