Excess mortality associated with blindness in the onchocerciasis focus of the Mbam Valley, Cameroon

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 181-189

  Pion, S D S ^a   Kamgno, J ^a   Demanga Ngangue, ^a   Boussinesq, M ^a  

^a CENTRE PASTEUR DU CAMEROUN   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BODY MASS; CAMEROON; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; ONSET AGE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLINDNESS; CAMEROON; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ODDS RATIO; ONCHOCERCIASIS, OCULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

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EID: 0036216688     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/000349802125000718     Document Type: Article

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