The pathogenesis of chorioretinal disease in onchocerciasis

Parasitology Today

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 94-98

  Cooper, Philip J ^a   Guderian, Ronald H ^b   Proaño, Roberto ^b   Taylor, David W ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL VOZANDES   (Ecuador)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOCARZINE; IVERMECTIN; MEBENDAZOLE; SURAMIN;

AUTOIMMUNITY; CHORIORETINOPATHY; EYE INFECTION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PATHOGENESIS; REVIEW;

ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS;

EID: 0031106731     PISSN: 01694758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-4758(97)01005-3     Document Type: Review

References (59)

1. 1 Pearlman, E. (1996) Experimental onchocercal keratitis. Parasitol. Today 12, 261-267
2. 2 Duke, B.O.L. (1990) Human onchocerciasis - an overview of the disease. Acta Leidensa 59, 9-24
3. 3 Semba, R.D. et al. (1990) Longitudinal study of lesions of the posterior segment in onchocerciasis. Ophthalmology 97, 1334-1341
4. 4 Newland, H.S. et al. (1991) Ocular manifestations of onchocerciasis in a rain forest area of West Africa. Br. J. Ophthalmol. 75, 163-169
5. 5 Bird, A.C., Anderson, J. and Fuglsang, H. (1976) Morphology of posterior segment lesions of the eye in patients with onchocerciasis. Br. J. Ophthalmol. 60, 2-20
6. 6 Cooper, P.J. et al. (1995) Onchocerciasis in Ecuador: ocular findings in Onchocerca volvulus infected individuals. Br. J. Ophthalmol. 79, 157-162
7. 7 Cooper, P.J. et al. (1996) Onchocerciasis in Ecuador: evolution of chorioretinopathy after amocarzine treatment. Br. J. Ophthalmol. 80, 337-342
8. 8 Taylor, H.R. et al. (1986) Treatment of onchocerciasis. The ocular effects of ivermectin and diethylcarbamazine. Arch. Ophthalmol. 104, 863-870
9. 9 Anderson, J., Fuglsang, H. and Marshall, T.F. (1976) Effects of suramin on ocular onchocerciasis. Trop. Med. Parasitol. 27, 279-296
10. 10 Rodger, F.C. (1960) The pathogenesis and pathology of ocular onchocerciasis. IV. The pathology. Am. J. Ophthalmol. 49, 560-594
11. 11 Paul, E.V. and Zimmerman, L.E. (1970) Some observations on the ocular pathology of onchocerciasis. Hum. Pathol. 1, 581-594
12. 12 Neumann, E. and Gunders, A.E. (1973) Pathogenesis of the posterior segment lesion of ocular onchocerciasis. Am. J. Ophthalmol. 75, 82-89
13. 13 Garner, A. (1976) Pathology of ocular onchocerciasis: human and experimental, Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 70, 374-377
14. 14 Anderson, J. and Fuglsang, H. (1977) Ocular onchocerciasis. Trop. Dis. Bull. 74, 257-272
15. 15 Anderson, J. et al. (1978) Studies on onchocerciasis in the United Cameroon Republic. IV. A four-year follow-up of six rain-forest and six savanna villages. The incidence of ocular lesions. Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 72, 513-515
16. 16 Remme, J. et al. (1989) Ocular onchocerciasis and intensity of infection in the community. I. West African savanna. Trop. Med. Parasitol. 40, 340-347
17. 17 Dadzie, K.Y. et al. (1990) Ocular onchocerciasis and intensity of infection in the community. III. West African rain forest foci of the vector Simulium sanctipauli. Trop. Med. Parasitol. 41, 376-382
18. 18 Dadzie, K.Y., De Sole, G. and Remme, J. (1992) Ocular onchocerciasis and the intensity of infection in the community. 4. The degraded forest of Sierra Leone. Trop. Med. Parasitol. 43, 75-79
19. 19 Bird, A.C. et al. (1980) Changes in visual function and in the posterior segment of the eye during treatment of onchocerciasis with diethylcarbamazine citrate. Br. J. Ophthalmol. 64, 191-200
20. 20 Dadzie, K.Y., Remme, J. and De Sole, G. (1990) Epidemiological impact of vector control II. Changes in ocular onchocerciasis. Acta Leidensa 59, 127-139
21. 21 Rothova, A. et al. (1990) Ocular involvement in patients with onchocerciasis after repeated treatment with ivermectin. Am. J. Ophthalmol. 110, 6-16
22. 22 World Health Organisation (1993) The effect of repeated ivermectin treatment on ocular onchocerciasis; report of an informal consultation. TDR/TDE/ONCHO/93.3
23. 23 Budden, F.H. (1976) The natural history of ocular onchocerciasis over a period of 14-15 years and the effect on this of a single course of suramin therapy. Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 70, 484-491
24. 24 Anderson, J., Fuglsang, H. and Marshall, T.F. (1976) Studies on onchocerciasis in the United Cameroon Republic. III. A four year follow-up of 6 raín-forest and 6 savanna villages. Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 70, 362-373
25. 25 Fuglsang, H. and Anderson, J. (1978) Further observations on the relationship between ocular onchocerciasis and the head nodule, and on the possible benefit of nodulectomy. Br. J. Ophthalmol. 62, 445-449
26. 26 Guderian, R.H. et al. (1991) Onchocercacidal effect of three drug regimens of amocarzine in 148 patients of two races and both sexes from Esmeraldas, Ecuador. Trop. Med. Parasitol. 52, 263-285
27. 27 Wildenburg, G. et al. (1994) Lymph nodes of onchocerciasis patients after treatment with ivermectin: reaction of eosinophil granulocytes and their cationic granule proteins. Trop. Med. Parasitol. 45, 87-96
28. 28 John, T. et al. (1987) Retinal pigment epitheliopathy and neuroretinal degeneration in ascarid-infected eyes. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 28, 1583-1598
29. 29 Garner, A. and Duke, B.O.L. (1976) Fundus lesions in the rabbit eye following inoculation of Onchocerca volvulus microfilariae into the posterior segment. Trop. Med. Parasitol. 27, 19-29
30. 30 Semba, R.D. et al. (1991) Experimental ocular onchocerciasis in cynomolgus monkeys. IV. Chorioretinitis elicited by Onchocerca volvulus microfilariae. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 32, 1499-1507
31. 31 Luty, A.J.F. et al. (1990) Immunological studies on onchocerciasis in Sierra Leone. I. Pretreatment baseline data. Trap. Med. Parasitol. 41, 371-375
32. 32 Soboslay, P.T. et al. (1992) Ivermectin-facilitated immunity in onchocerciasis. Reversal of lymphocytopenia, cellular anergy and deficient cytokine production after single treatment. Clin. Exp. Immunol. 89, 407
33. 33 Mackenzie, C.D. et al. (1987) in Filariasis: Ciba Foundation Symposium No .127, pp 46-72, John Wiley
34. 34 Bryant, J. (1935) Endemic retino-choroiditis in the Anglo-Egyptian and its possible relationship to Onchocerca volvulus. Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 28, 523-532
35. 35 Coley, S.C. and Leid, R.W. (1982) Effects of extracts of Onchocerca cervicalis from horses on the lytic activity of human, rat, and equine complement. Clin. Immunol. Immunopathol. 23, 113-123
36. 36 Petralanda, I. and Piessens, W.F. (1994) Pathogenesis of onchocercal dermatitis: possible role of parasite proteases and autoantibodies to extracellular matrix proteins. Exp. Parasitol. 79, 177-186
37. 37 Petralanda, I., Yarzabal, L. and Piessens, W.F. (1986) Studies on a filarial antigen with collagenase activity. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 19, 51-59
38. 38 Chan, C.C. et al. (1987) Immunopathology of ocular onchocerciasis. 2. Anti-retinal autoantibodies in serum and ocular fluids. Ophthalmology 94, 439-443
39. 39 Van der Lelij, A. et al. (1990) Humoral and cell-mediated immune response against human retinal antigens in relation to ocular onchocerciasis. Acta Leidensa 51, 271-283
40. 40 McKechnie, N.M. et al. s(1993) Immunologic cross-reactivity in the pathogenesis of ocular onchocerciasis. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 34, 2888-2902
41. 41 Zhou, Y. et al. (1994) Major retinal cell components recognised by onchocerciasis sera are associated with the cell surface and nucleoli. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 355, 1089-1099
42. 42 Meilof, J.F. et al. (1993) Autoimmunity and Filariasis: autoantibodies against cytoplasmic cellular proteins in sera of patients with onchocerciasis. J. Immunol. 151, 5800-5809
43. 43 Greenwood, B.M. and Whittle, H.C. (1980) in Immunology of Medicine in the Tropics, pp 56-58, Edward Arnold
44. 44 Adebajo, A.O. et al. (1993) Autoantibodies in malaria, tuberculosis and hepatitis B in a West African population. Clin. Exp. Immunol. 92, 73-76
45. 45 Rocken, M. and Shevach, E.M. (1993) Do parasitic infections break T-cell tolerance and trigger autoimmune disease. Parasitol. Today 9, 377-380
46. 46 Tomer, Y. and Shoenfeld, Y. (1988) The significance of natural autoantibodies. Immunol. Invest. 17, 389-424
47. 47 Vingtain, P. et al. (1990) in Modern Trends in Immunology and Immunopathology of the Eye (Secchi, A.G. and Fregona, I.A., eds), pp 156-159, Masson
48. 48 Braun, G. et al. (1991) Immunological crossreactivity between a cloned antigen of Onchocerca volvulus and a component of the retinal pigment epithelium. J. Exp. Med. 174, 169-177
49. 49 Braun, G., McKechnie, N.M. and Gurr, W. (1995) Molecular and immunological characterisation of hr44, a human ocular component immunologically cross-reactive with antigen Ov39 of Onchocerca volvulus. J. Exp. Med. 182, 1121-1131
50. 50 McKechnie, N.M. et al. (1993) Cross-reactive antigens in the pathogenesis of onchocerciasis. Ann. Trop. Med. Parasitol. 87, 649-652
51. 51 Cooper, P.J. et al. (1996) Absence of cellular responses to a putative autoantigen in onchocercal chorioretinopathy. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 37, 405-412
52. 52 Forrester, J.V. (1992) New concepts on the role of autoimmunity in the pathogenesis of uveitis. Eye 6, 433-446
53. 53 Lambert, P.H. et al. (1978) WHO collaborative study for evaluation of eighteen methods for detecting immune complexes in serum. Clin. Lab. Immunol. 1, 1
54. 54 Greene, B.M. et al. (1983) Ocular and systemic complications of diethylcarbamazine therapy for onchocerciasis: association with circulating immune complexes. J. Infect. Dis. 147, 890-897
55. 55 Sisley, B.M. et al. (1987) Associations between clinical disease, circulating antibodies and C1q-binding immune complexes in human onchocerciasis. Parasite Immunol. 9, 447-463
56. 56 Rodger, F.C. (1962) A review of recent advances in scientific knowledge of the symptomatology, pathology, and pathogenesis of onchocercal infection. Bull. WHO 27, 429-448
57. 57 Hughes, M.H. and Daly, P.F. (1951) Onchocerciasis in the Southern Gold Coast. Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 45, 243-252
58. 58 Choyce, D.P. (1958) Some observations on the ocular complications of onchocerciasis and their relationship to blindness. Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 52, 112
59. 59 Anderson, J. and Fuglsang, H. (1975) WHO/ONCHO/WP 75.16