Parasitological indicators of onchocerciasis relevant to ivermectin control programmes in the Amazonian focus of southern Venezuela

Parasitology

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 527-534

  Vivas Martinez S ^a,b   Basanez M G ^b,c   Botto, C ^b   Villegas, L ^a,d   Garcia M ^b   Curtis, C F ^a  

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

^b Centro Amazónico para Investigación y Control de Enfermedades Tropicales CAICET   (Venezuela)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d Distrito Sanitario del Alto Orinoco   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Altitude; Nodule prevalence; Onchocerciasis; Parasitological indicators; Rapid epidemiological assessment; Southern Venezuela; Yanomami

Indexed keywords

IVERMECTIN;

ACCURACY; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BODY BURDEN; BONE BIOPSY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HUMAN; ILIAC CREST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MODEL; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PALPATION; PARASITE CONTROL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN NODULE; VENEZUELA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; IVERMECTIN; LINEAR MODELS; MICROFILARIA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SKIN; VENEZUELA;

NEMATODA;

EID: 0033658818     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182099006630     Document Type: Article

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