Onchocerciasis is a form of filariasis, caused by the parasitic worm Onchocerca volvulus, transmitted by the black fly. The infection can either be asymptomatic or manifest as an ocular disease (river blindness) with itchy eyes, erythema, photophobia, onchodermatitis or onchocercal skin disease (classified into acute papular, chronic papular, lichenified, atrophic, and depigmentated) and onchocercomas (over bony prominences). Other classic clinical manifestations are ichthyosis-like lesions (''lizard skin'') and ''hanging groin'', which may be associated with lymphadenopathy. [ Orphanet:2737 ]
Synonyms: onchocerciasis Onchocerca volvulus infection infection by Onchocerca volvulus volvulosis
Term information
- UMLS:C0029001 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- MESH:D009855 (Orphanet:2737/e)
- NCIT:C34861 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- GARD:7252 (MONDO:GARD)
- MedDRA:10030314 (Orphanet:2737/e)
- SCTID:38539003 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- EFO:0007402 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- MedDRA:10039202 (Orphanet:2737/e)
- Orphanet:2737 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- ICD9:125.3 (DOID:11678)
- ICD10CM:B73 (Orphanet:2737/e)
- MEDGEN:14477 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- icd11.foundation:106136071 (Orphanet:2737)
- DOID:11678 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
gard_rare, ordo_disorder, otar, rare, nord_rare, orphanet_rare
http://identifiers.org/medgen/14477
http://www.orpha.net/ORDO/Orphanet_2737
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C34861
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0029001
http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/ICD10CM/B73
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_11678
http://identifiers.org/mesh/D009855
http://identifiers.org/snomedct/38539003
River blindness
Robles' disease
infection caused by Onchocerca volvulus
onchocercosis