Echinococcosis in Southern Brazil: Efforts toward implementation of a control program in Santana do Livramento, Rio Grande do Sul

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 153-156

  Farias, Leila Neves ^a   Malgor, Ramiro ^b   Cassaravilla, Cecilia ^b   Bragança, Caio ^c   De La Rue, Mário Luiz ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

^b Universidad de la Republica Instituto de Higiene   (Uruguay)

^c Vigilância Sanitária   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Control program; Echinococcus granulosus; Rio Grande do Sul

Indexed keywords

ARECOLINE; PRAZIQUANTEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; HEALTH PROGRAM; INFECTION CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PROPHYLAXIS; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA;

EID: 3142726623     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0036-46652004000300006     Document Type: Article

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