Clinical presentation of onchocerciasis among indigenous and migrant farmers in Southwest Ethiopia

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 635-638

  Mengistu, G ^a,c   Balcha, F ^b   Britton, S ^c  

^a Armauer Hanssen Research Institute   (Ethiopia)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c ARMAUER HANSEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RACE; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; TREE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; BIOPSY; CAUSALITY; CHILD; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; ONCHOCERCIASIS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; TREES;

EID: 0033233367     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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