Prevalence of Onchocerca volvulus nodules in the Sankuru River Valley, democratic republic of the congo, and reliability of verbal assessment as a method for determining prevalence

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 227-230

  Law, Paul Aubrey ^a   Ngandu, Omba Noel ^b   Crompton, Peter ^a   Usungo, Osumba ^c   Kosten, Daniel ^d   Law, J Kiely ^a   Burnham, Gilbert ^e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Projet Bateau PRAS   (Congo)

^c Médecin Chef du Zone Lusambo   (Congo)

^d Institute Medical Chretien au Kasai   (Congo)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IVERMECTIN;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONGO; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PREVALENCE; RELIABILITY; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0031683668     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1998.59.227     Document Type: Article

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