Survey of blindness and visual impairment in Bioko, Equatorial Guinea

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 257-260

  Moser, Carlos L ^a   Martin Baranera M ^a   Vega, F ^a   Draper, V ^a   Gutierrez J ^a   Mas, J ^a  

^a NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLINDNESS; CHILD; EQUATORIAL GUINEA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONCHOCERCIASIS; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLINDNESS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EQUATORIAL GUINEA; FEMALE; FILARICIDES; HUMANS; IVERMECTIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONCHOCERCIASIS, OCULAR; PREVALENCE; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0036197102     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.86.3.257     Document Type: Review

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