New insights into the natural history and pathology of bancroftian filariasis: Implications for clinical management and filariasis control programmes

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 594-596

  Dreyer, Gerusa ^a,b   Norões, Joaquim ^a   Figueredo Silva, José ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Children; Disease control; Filariasis; Morbidity; Natural history; Wuchereria bancrofti

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE COURSE; ELEPHANTIASIS; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; HYGIENE; INFECTION CONTROL; LYMPH FLOW; LYMPHANGIECTASIS; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM INFECTION; LYMPHEDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 0033660187     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(00)90200-1     Document Type: Article

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