Bancroftian filariasis on Pemba Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania: An update on the status in urban and semi-urban communities

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 295-301

  Pedersen, Erling M ^a   Kilama, W L ^b   Swai, A B M ^c   Kihamia, C M ^c   Rwiza, H ^c   Kisumku, U M ^d  

^a DANISH BILHARZIASIS LABORATORY   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^c Mubimbili Medical Centre   (Tanzania)

^d Elderly and Children   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Culex quinquefasciatus; Epidemiology; Follow up study; Lymphatic filariasis; Pemba; Tanzania; Urban communities; Wuchereria bancrofti

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; FILARIASIS; MONITORING; PARASITE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX; ELEPHANTIASIS; FILARIASIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; TANZANIA; URBAN POPULATION; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULEX; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SUBURBAN HEALTH; TANZANIA; URBAN HEALTH; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

TANZANIA;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; NEMATODA; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 0032915776     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1999.00391.x     Document Type: Article

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