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ArticleAnnals of medicine and surgery (2012)2025

River blindness: a devastating yet neglected tropical disease in Africa.

Abdullahi Tunde Aborode, Rumaisa Riaz, Mayar Moustafa Budair, Maher Ali Rusho, Hazem Mohamed Mousa, Farheen Naaz, Mahammed Khan Suheb, Afsheen Khan, Amidu Alhassan, Innocent Mufungizi and 8 more

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Article in Annals of medicine and surgery (2012), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors.

Abdullahi Tunde AborodeHealthy Africans Platform, Research and Development, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Rumaisa RiazDepartment of Internal Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan.
Mayar Moustafa BudairDepartment of medicine, New Giza University, Giza, Egypt.
Maher Ali RushoDepartment of medical biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0001-5759-7042
Hazem Mohamed MousaDepartment of Dentistry, New Giza University, Giza, Egypt.
Farheen NaazMedical College, Deccan College of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, India.
Mahammed Khan SuhebDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Afsheen KhanDepartment of Internal Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan.
Amidu AlhassanCollege of Health and Allied Sciences, Department of Adult Health, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.
Innocent MufungiziDepartment of Research, Medical Research Circle (MedReC), Bukavu, DR Congo.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7231-5456
Malik Olatunde OduoyeDepartment of Research, Medical Research Circle (MedReC), Bukavu, DR Congo.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9635-9891
Adolphe KaregeyaCollege of Nursing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United State of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0000-2749-7510
Mc Juan Muco MugishaClinical Research Department, Rinda Ubuzima Research Organization, Kigali, Rwanda.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0002-9949-5017
Freddy ZihindulaFaculty of medicine, Evangelic University in Africa, Bukavu, DR Congo.
Excellent RugendabangaDepartment of Research, Medical Research Circle (MedReC), Bukavu, DR Congo.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8788-4351
Jones OnesimeDepartment of Research, Medical Research Circle (MedReC), Bukavu, DR Congo.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2662-5872
Samson HangiDepartment of Research, Medical Research Circle (MedReC), Bukavu, DR Congo.
Aymar AkilimaliCollege of Health and Allied Sciences, Department of Adult Health, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9393-1215

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID40213186
PMCPMC11981242

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