Articles, web releases:

• Cameroun – Lutte contre l’onchocercose: Grâce à une nouvelle approche, 37 000 personnes traitées en 2 ans dans l’arrondissement d’Okola (Centre), Cameroon-Info.Net, Jean-Marie NKOUSSA, May 2017.
• Vers l’élimination de l’onchocercose au Cameroun, French Ambassy in Cameroon website, April 2017.
• Cameroun – Santé: Traitement de l’onchocercose: Une nouvelle approche pour palier aux effets secondaires indésirables liés au Mectizan, Cameroon-Info.Net, Elodie N. BODOLO, February 2017.
• Vers l’élimination de l’onchocercose au Cameroun, IRD Cameroon website.
• Cameroun – Maladies tropicales: Grâce au Loascope, il est désormais possible de mesurer le niveau d’infection de l’onchocercose chez les individus, Cameroon-Info.Net, Otric NGON, Juin 2017.
• Cameroun : des scientifiques mettent au point Loascope, un appareil mesurant le niveau d’infection de l’onchocercose, Agence Ecofin, June 2017

 

Publications:

Open Access:

• Tekle A. H., Zouré H. G. M., Noma M., Boussinesq M., Coffeng L. E., Stolk W. A., et Remme J. H. F., Progress towards onchocerciasis elimination in the participating countries of the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control: epidemiological evaluation results, Infect Dis Poverty, vol. 5, n^o 1, p. 66, 2016. doi: 10.1186/s40249-016-0160-7.
• Noma M., Zoure H.G.M., Tekle A.H., Enyong P., Nwoke B.E.B. and Remme J.H.F. The geographic distribution of onchocerciasis in the 20 participating countries of the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control: (1) priority areas for ivermectin treatment, Parasites & Vectors, 2014 (https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-7-325)
• Kouam M.K., Tchatchueng-Mbougua J.B., Demanou M., Boussinesq M., Pion S.D.S. and Kamgno J.“Impact of repeated ivermectin treatments against onchocerciasis on the transmission of loiasis: an entomologic evaluation in central Cameroon”, Parasites&Vectors, 2013, 6:283.
• Zoure H.G.M., Wanji.S., Noma.M, Uche Veronica Amazigo, Peter J.
• Diggle, Tekle A.H., Remme J.H.F, The Geographic Distribution of Loa loa in Africa: Results of Large-Scale Implementation of the Rapid Assessment Procedure for Loiasis (RAPLOA), PLoS Negl Trop Dis 5(6): e1210. DOI:10.1371/journal.pntd.0001210, 2011
• Poin S. D. S., Filipe J. A. N., Kamgno J., Gardon J., Basanez M.-G. and Boussinesq M., Co-infection with Onchocerca volvulus and Loa loa microfilariae in central Cameroon: are these two species interacting? Parasitology, 132 (Pt 6). pp. 843-54. ISSN 0031-1820 doi: 10.1017/S003118200600984X, 2006
• Poin S. D. S., Filipe J. A. N., Kamgno J., Gardon J., Basanez M.-G. and Boussinesq M., Microfilarial distribution of Loa loa in the human host: population dynamics and epidemiological implications, Parasitology, 133. pp. 101-109. ISSN 0031-1820 DOI: 10.1017/S0031182006000035, 2006
• Boussinesq M., Gardon J., Gardon-Wendel N. and Chippaux J-P., Clinical picture, epidemiology and outcome of Loa-associated serious adverse events related to mass ivermectin treatment of onchocerciasis in Cameroon, Filaria Journal, 2003, 2(Suppl 1):S4

ResearchGate:

• Chesnais C. B., Takougang I., Paguélé M., Pion S. D., et Boussinesq M., Excess mortality associated with loiasis: a retrospective population-based cohort study, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2016, doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30405-4.
• Metzger G.M., Mordmüller B., Loa loa—does it deserve to be neglected?, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(13)70263-9

Other sources:

• Boussinesq M., Gardon J., Prevalences of Loa Zoa microfilaraemia throughout the area endemic for the infection, Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology, Vol. 91, No. 6, 573-589, 1997
• Gardon J., Gardon-Wendel N., Demanga-Ngangue, Kamgno J., Chippaux J-P., Boussinesq M., Serious reactions after mass treatment of onchocerciasis with ivermectin in an area endemic for Loa loa infection, The Lancet, Vol. 350, 1997