Onchocerca-Simulium complexes in Venezuela: Can human onchocerciasis spread outside its present endemic areas?

Parasitology

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 143-160

  Basanez M G ^a,b   Yarzabal L ^c   Frontado, H L ^b   Villamizar, N J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Ctro Amazonico Invest Contr E   (Venezuela)

^c Inst Internacional UNESCO Educ S   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Cross infection experiments; Local adaptation; Onchocerciasis spread; S. exiguum s.l.; S. oyapockense s.l.; Simulium metallicum s.l.; Venezuela

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULIUM; VENEZUELA;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BACK; BIOPSY; FEMALE; HAND; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LEG; MALE; MICROFILARIA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; SIMULIIDAE; SKIN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VENEZUELA;

NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; SIMULIIDAE; SIMULIUM EXIGUUM; SIMULIUM METALLICUM; SIMULIUM OCHRACEUM; SIMULIUM OYAPOCKENSE;

EID: 0342614967     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182099005429     Document Type: Article

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