Onchocerca ochengi: Assessment of the Simulium vectors in North Cameroon

Parasitology

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 327-336

  Wahl, G ^a,b   Ekale, D ^b   Schmitz, A ^b  

^a Eberhard Karls Universität ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cameroon; Cattle; Onchocerca ochengi; Onchocerciasis; Simulium bovis; Simulium damnosum s.l.; Simulium hargreavesi; Simulium wellmanni

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITE VECTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULIUM; SIMULIUM DAMNOSUM;

ANIMALS; CAMEROON; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; INSECT VECTORS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCIASIS; SIMULIIDAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARACHNIDA; BOS TAURUS; FILARIA; HEXAPODA; NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCA OCHENGI; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; SIMULIUM DAMNOSUM; SIMULIUM HARGREAVESI; SIMULIUM SIRBANUM; SIMULIUM SQUAMOSUM;

EID: 0031950273     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182097002333     Document Type: Article

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