The Potential for Dispersal of Onchocerciasis in Ecuador in Relation to the Distribution of the Vector Simulium exiguum (Diptera:Simuliidae)

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 153-156

  Charalambous, M ^a   Shelley, A J ^a   Arzube, M ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b Instituto Nacional de Higiene y Medicina Tropical   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Ecuador; Onchocerciasis; Oncocercosis; Simulium exiguum; Vector cytotaxonomy

Indexed keywords

DIPTERA; SIMULIIDAE; SIMULIUM EXIGUUM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; ECUADOR; FLY; HUMAN; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ECUADOR; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; SIMULIIDAE;

EID: 0031082957     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02761997000200004     Document Type: Article

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