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dracunculiasis
Disease Summary
Associated Targets ()
Mondo Description Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease) is a neglected tropical disease (NTD) characterized by a painful burning skin lesion from which the Dracunculus medinensis parasite emerges approximately 1 year after infection resulting from consumption of unsafe drinking water containing parasite-infected copepods (Cyclops spp., microcrustacea also called water fleas).
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Description from Mondo Disease Ontology.
DataSources which have contributed target associations to this disease, and the identifiers by which the disease is referenced.
DOID:14418
EFO:0007241
GARD:0006286
ICD10:B72
ICD9:125.7
MESH:D004320
NCIT:C84677
Orphanet:231
SCTID:396334002
UMLS:C0013100
MONDO:0016472
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