Status of forest onchocerciasis in the Lower Cross River basin, Nigeria: Entomologic profile after five years of ivermectin intervention

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 371-376

  Opara, Kenneth N ^b   Fagbemi, Olakunle B ^c   Ekwe, Asuquo ^d   Okenu, Daniel M N ^a,e  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UYO   (Nigeria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^d National Onchocerciasis Control Program   (Nigeria)

^e NIGERIAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IVERMECTIN; RAIN;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUNTING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BITE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FISHING; FOREST; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; LARVA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIVER BASIN; SIMULIUM DAMNOSUM;

ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; SIMULIUM DAMNOSUM;

EID: 24644475761     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2005.73.371     Document Type: Article

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