Pattern of community compliance with spaced, single-dose, mass administrations of diethylcarbamazine or ivermectin, for the elimination of lymphatic filariasis from rural areas of southern India

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 237-242

  Vanamail, P ^a   Ramaiah, K D ^a   Subramanian, S ^a   Pani, S P ^a   Yuvaraj, J ^a   Das, P K ^a  

^a VECTOR CONTROL RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE; IVERMECTIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILL; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; FEVER; FILARIASIS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; THORAX PAIN; VOMITING; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ANIMALS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; FEVER; FILARICIDES; HUMANS; INDIA; IVERMECTIN; NAUSEA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RURAL POPULATION; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 17144381677     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485905X29666     Document Type: Article

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