Prevalence of filarial antigenaemia in Papua New Guinea: Results of surveys by the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

Papua and New Guinea Medical Journal

Volumn , Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 161-165

  Melrose, Wayne ^a   Pisters, Pauline ^a   Turner, Paul ^a   Kombati, Zure ^a   Selve, Billy P ^b   Hii, Jeffrey ^a,c   Speare, Richard ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Misima Mines Ltd   (Papua New Guinea)

^c AusAID   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN; WUCHERERIA ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD; FILARIASIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROFILARIA; ONCHOCERCA; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL; TROPICAL MEDICINE; UNIVERSITY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; AUSTRALIA; FILARIASIS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MICROFILARIA; ONCHOCERCA; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PREVALENCE; SCHOOLS, PUBLIC HEALTH; TROPICAL MEDICINE; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 0034285890     PISSN: 00311480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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