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.

• প্রধান লেখক: Christoph Malkmus (লেখক), Shabnam Jawahar (লেখক), Nancy Tricoche (লেখক), Sara Lustigman (লেখক), Jan Hansmann (লেখক)
• বিন্যাস: গ্রন্থ
• প্রকাশিত: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• বিষয়গুলি: article
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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...