Bancroftian filariasis in an irrigation project community in southern Ghana

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-18

  Dzodzomenyo, Mawuli ^a,b   Dunyo, Samuel K ^a   Ahorlu, Collins K ^a   Coker, William Z ^b   Appawu, Maxwell A ^a   Pedersen, Erling M ^c   Simonsen, Paul E ^c  

^a University of Ghana   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^c DANISH BILHARZIASIS LABORATORY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Filariasis; Ghana; Irrigation; Microfilarial periodicity; Rice; Vectors; Wuchereria bancrofti

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; FILARIASIS; IRRIGATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; GHANA; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); LIFE CYCLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROFILARIASIS; PARASITE PREVALENCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FILARIASIS; GHANA; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; WATER; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

GHANA;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; NEMATODA; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 0033036345     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1999.00354.x     Document Type: Article

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