Dracunculiasis X in Vietnam –emerging public health threat or exotic gem?

In human parasitology, diseases with restricted geographical distribution, a life cycle remaining to be fully elucidated and a waxing-and-waning disease epidemiology are not the rule, but also not really exceptional, as illustrated by sarcocystosis in Southeast Asia (Esposito et al., 2014); or human lagochilascariasis minor in parts of central and South America (Barbosa Campos et al., 2017). Descriptions of geographically extremely limited clusters of a parasitic disease, far away from its known area of distribution, have been described; for example, gnathostomiasis spinigerum in Eastern sub-Saharan Africa (Raharisoa et al., 2020; Frean, 2020).

Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - February 18, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Martin P. Grobusch, T. Hanscheid Tags: Editorial Source Type: research