KEGG DISEASE: Dracunculiasis

KEGG

DISEASE: Dracunculiasis

Entry

H01044                      Disease

Name

Dracunculiasis;
Guinea worm disease

Description

Dracunculiasis, or guinea worm disease, is a parasitic disease caused by the nematode Dracunculiasis medinensis. It is limited to mostly remote rural communities that do not have access to safe drinking water. It is transmitted by contaminated drinking water containing water fleas that are infected with D. medinensis larvae. In infected individuals, the worm emerges as a whitish filament in the center of a painful ulcer of the lower extremity, impairing mobility for up to several weeks.

Category

Parasitic infectious disease

Brite

Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
  Parasitic diseases
   Helminthiases
    Diseases due to nematodes
     1F64  Dracunculiasis
      H01044  Dracunculiasis
Genome-based classification of infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Parasitic infections (animals)
  Infections caused by nematodes
   H01044  Dracunculiasis

Pathogen

Dracunculus medinensis

Comment

Intermediate host:Arthropods (Water flea)

Other DBs

ICD-11:

MeSH:

Reference

Authors

Greenaway C

Title

Dracunculiasis (guinea worm disease).

Journal

CMAJ 170:495-500 (2004)

Reference

Authors

Iriemenam NC, Oyibo WA, Fagbenro-Beyioku AF

Title

Dracunculiasis--the saddle is virtually ended.

Journal

Parasitol Res 102:343-7 (2008)
DOI:10.1007/s00436-007-0828-9

Reference

Authors

Hopkins DR, Ruiz-Tiben E, Ruebush TK, Diallo N, Agle A, Withers PC Jr

Title

Dracunculiasis eradication: delayed, not denied.

Journal

Am J Trop Med Hyg 62:163-8 (2000)
DOI:10.4269/ajtmh.2000.62.163

Reference

Authors

Ruiz-Tiben E, Hopkins DR

Title

Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease) eradication.

Journal

Adv Parasitol 61:275-309 (2006)
DOI:10.1016/S0065-308X(05)61007-X

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