The effect of 5 years of annual treatment with ivermectin (Mectizan®) on the prevalence and morbidity of onchocerciasis in the village of Gami in the Central African Republic

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 297-307

  Kennedy, M H ^a   Bertocchi, I ^a   Hopkins, A D ^a   Meredith, S E ^a  

^a Task Force for Child Survival and Development   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IVERMECTIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC; CHILD; EDEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PRURITUS; SKIN NODULE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTIPARASITIC AGENTS; CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; FILARICIDES; HUMANS; IVERMECTIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONCHOCERCIASIS; ONCHOCERCIASIS, OCULAR; PREVALENCE; PRURITUS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SKIN DISEASES, PARASITIC;

NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCA;

EID: 0036114864     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/000349802125000736     Document Type: Article

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