Onchocerciasis in the Amazonian focus of southern Venezuela: Altitude and blackfly species composition as predictors of endemicity to select communities for ivermectin control programmes

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 613-620

  Vivas Martínez, Sarai ^a,b   Basáñez, María Gloria ^b,c   Grillet, María Eugenia ^b,d   Weiss, Helen ^a   Botto, Carlos ^b   García, Mayila ^b   Villamizar, Nestor J ^b   Chavasse, Desmond C ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b CAICET   (Venezuela)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Altitude; Amazonian focus; Endemicity; Ivermectin; Onchocerca volvulus; Onchocerciasis; Simuliidae; Venezuela

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; IVERMECTIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BITE; DENSITY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FLY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; RIVER; SCHOOL CHILD; SIMULIUM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VENEZUELA;

NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; SIMULIIDAE; SIMULIUM GUIANENSE; SIMULIUM INCRUSTATUM; SIMULIUM OYAPOCKENSE;

EID: 0032439646     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(98)90784-2     Document Type: Article

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