Reduction in the prevalence and intensity of infection in Onchocerca volvulus microfilariae according to ethnicity and community after 8 years of ivermectin treatment on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1082-1091

  Mas, J ^a,c   Ascaso, C ^a,c   Escaramis, G ^a,c   Abellana, R ^a,c   Duran, E ^a,c   Sima, A ^b   Sanchez M J ^a,c   Nkogo, P R ^b   Nguema, R ^b   Untoria, M D ^a,c   Echeverria, M A ^a,c   Ardevol, M M ^a,c   De Jimenez Anta M T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Equatorial Guinea   (Equatorial Guinea)

^c Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional AECI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bioko island; Epidemiological survey; Equatorial Guinea; Ethnicity; Ivermectin; Onchocerca volvulus

Indexed keywords

IVERMECTIN;

DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TREATMENT; ETHNICITY; MEDICINE; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITIC DISEASE; RURAL POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GUINEA; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROFILARIA; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EQUATORIAL GUINEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; IVERMECTIN; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MICROFILARIA; MIDDLE AGED; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RURAL HEALTH; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SKIN;

AFRICA; BIOKO; CENTRAL AFRICA; EQUATORIAL GUINEA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

MANSONELLA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 33745747569     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2006.01650.x     Document Type: Article

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