Geographical patterns of onchocerciasis in southern Venezuela: Relationships between environment and infection prevalence

Parassitologia

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 145-150

  Botto, Carlos ^a,b,d   Escalona, E ^b   Vivas Martinez, S ^c   Behm, V ^b   Delgado, L ^b   Coronel, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^d Amazonian Centre for Research and Control of Tropical Diseases Puerto Ayacucho   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Ecology; Geographical Information Systems; Landscape; Onchocerciasis; Simulium; Yanomami

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; AMERICAN INDIAN; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENT; FLY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RIVER; TEMPERATURE; TOPOGRAPHY; TROPIC CLIMATE; VENEZUELA;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; INSECT VECTORS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PREVALENCE; RIVERS; SIMULIIDAE; TEMPERATURE; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; TROPICAL CLIMATE; VENEZUELA;

EID: 24944533738     PISSN: 00482951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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