Onchocerciasis hyperendemic in the Unturan Mountains: The value of recombinant antigens in describing a new transmission area in southern Venezuela

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-30

  Botto, Carlos ^a,b   Gillespie, Andy J ^c   Vivas Martínez, Sarai ^a,d   Martinez, Nahir ^a   Planchart, Sandra ^b   Basáñez, María Gloria ^a,e   Bradley, Janette E ^c,f  

^a CAICET   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age profiles; Endemicity; Onchocerca volvulus; Onchocerciasis; Recombinant antigens; Seroprevalence; Venezuela

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INGUINAL REGION; KERATITIS; MALE; MICROFILARIA; NORMAL HUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; OPTICAL DENSITY; PARASITOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCLEROSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; SKIN BIOPSY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VENEZUELA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; VENEZUELA;

EID: 0032588364     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(99)90167-0     Document Type: Article

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