Onchocerciasis control: Moving towards the millennium

Parasitology Today

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 418-425

  Molyneux, D H ^a   Davies, J B ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IVERMECTIN;

AFRICA; COMMUNITY CARE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITE INCIDENCE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; VECTOR CONTROL;

EID: 0031281845     PISSN: 01694758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-4758(97)00142-7     Document Type: Review

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