Successful and currently ongoing parasite eradication programs

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 293-307

  Bowman, Dwight D ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Amblyomma variegatum; Ancylostoma duodenale; Boophilus spp.; Chagas disease; Cochliomyia hominivorax; Cysticercosis; Eradication; Filariasis; Hydatid disease; Hypoderma spp.; Necator americanus; Schistosomiasis; Trypanosoma equiperdum; Tsetse fly

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; ARECOLINE; DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE; IVERMECTIN; PRAZIQUANTEL; RECOMBINANT VACCINE;

AFRICA; AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA VARIEGATUM; ANCYLOSTOMA DUODENALE; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BRUGIA MALAYI; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CHAGAS DISEASE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CYSTICERCOSIS; DISEASE CARRIER; DRACUNCULIASIS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; EUROPE; FILARIASIS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPODERMA; LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; NECATOR AMERICANUS; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITOLOGY; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCREWWORM FLY; SHEEP; TAENIA SOLIUM; TEXAS CATTLE FEVER; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TSETSE FLY; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; VETERINARY MEDICINE; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PARASITIC DISEASES; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; PEST CONTROL; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; TICK CONTROL; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; WORLD HEALTH;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA VARIEGATUM; ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; COCHLIOMYIA HOMINIVORAX; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; GLOSSINA (GENUS); HYPODERMA;

EID: 33745634388     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2006.04.020     Document Type: Article

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