Transmission intensity and the patterns of onchocerca volvulus infection in human communities

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 669-679

  Basáñez, María Gloria ^a,b,c   Collins, Richard C ^b,c,f   Porter, Charles H ^b,c,d   Little, Mark P ^a,b,c   Brandling Bennett, David ^b,c,e  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Centro Amazonico para Investigacion   (Venezuela)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^e PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (United States)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GUATEMALA; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; LARVA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEXICO; MICROFILARIA; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; SIMULIUM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; SIMULIUM DAMNOSUM; SIMULIUM OCHRACEUM;

EID: 0036912385     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2002.67.669     Document Type: Article

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