Successful control of onchocerciasis vectors in San Vicente Pacaya, Guatemala, 1984-1989

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 471-479

  Ochoa, J O ^a   Castro, J C ^a   Barrios, V M ^a   Juarez, E L ^a   Tada, I ^b  

^a Division de Malaria   (Guatemala)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; LARVICIDAL AGENT; ORGANOPHOSPHATE INSECTICIDE; RIVER WATER; TEMEFOS;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GUATEMALA; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROFILARIA; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITE INCIDENCE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOSIS; POWDER; SIMULIUM; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN NODULE; VECTOR CONTROL;

SIMULIUM OCHRACEUM; VERMES;

EID: 0030873883     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034983.1997.11813164     Document Type: Article

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