Human onchocerciasis in Africa;L'onchocercose humaine en Afrique

Medecine Tropicale

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 389-400

  Boussinesq, M ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Black Africa; Onchocerca volvulus; Onchocerciasis; Simulium

Indexed keywords

ANTIFILARIAL AGENT; HELMINTH DNA; IVERMECTIN;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA PROBE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FLY; HUMAN; INSECT CONTROL; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITIC SKIN DISEASE; PARASITOLOGY; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AFRICA; AFRICA, WESTERN; ANIMALS; DNA PROBES; DNA, HELMINTH; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FILARICIDES; HUMANS; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT VECTORS; IVERMECTIN; ONCHOCERCIASIS; ONCHOCERCIASIS, OCULAR; SIMULIIDAE; SKIN DISEASES, PARASITIC; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0042421823     PISSN: 0025682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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