Vector-parasite transmission complexes for onchocerciasis in West Africa

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Volumn 349, Issue 9046, 1997, Pages 163-166

  Toé, Laurent ^a   Tang, Jianming ^b   Back, Christian ^a   Katholi, Charles R ^b   Unnasch, Thomas R ^b  

^a Onchocerciasis Contr Prog W A   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FILARIA; INFECTION RATE; MALPIGHIAN TUBULE; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; OVARY; PARASITE INCIDENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULIUM DAMNOSUM; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 0031023789     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)05265-8     Document Type: Article

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