The effect of repeated half-yearly diethylcarbamazine mass treatment on Wuchereria bancrofti infection and transmission in two East African communities with different levels of endemicity

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 63-71

  Simonsen, Paul E ^a   Meyrowitsch, Dan W ^b   Mukoko, Dunstan A ^c   Pedersen, Erling M ^a   Malecela Lazaro, Mwele N ^d   Rwegoshora, Rwehumbiza T ^d   Ouma, John H ^c   Masese, Naftal ^c   Jaoko, Walter G ^e   Michael, Edwin ^f  

^a DANISH BILHARZIASIS LABORATORY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Kenya)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CIRCULATING FILARIAL ANTIGEN; DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIFILARIAL AGENT; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DROUGHT; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; KENYA; LARVA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROFILARIASIS; MOSQUITO; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; TANZANIA; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI; ANIMAL; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FILARIASIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROFILARIA; PARASITOLOGY;

CELL FUSING AGENT VIRUS; NEMATODA; WUCHERERIA; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULICIDAE; DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; FILARICIDES; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; KENYA; MALE; MICROFILARIA; PREVALENCE; TANZANIA; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 3242730300     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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