Onchocerciasis-river blindness

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 176-180

  Enk, Claes D ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DOXYCYCLINE; IVERMECTIN;

AFRICA; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; ASIA; BLINDNESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DERMATITIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG ACTIVITY; EDEMA; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EYE DISEASE; FEVER; FLY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HYPOPIGMENTATION; INSECT BITE; LYMPHADENITIS; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SKIN ATROPHY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DEFECT; SLIT LAMP; VITILIGO; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

HUMANS; ONCHOCERCIASIS, OCULAR;

EID: 33646568423     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2005.11.008     Document Type: Article

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