Filariasis in Ghatampur Tahsil of Kanpur Nagar District: Indications of high endemicity locus

Journal of Communicable Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 155-159

  Kumar, Anil ^a   Yadav, V S ^a   Katoch, Kiran ^a   Sachan, Pawan ^b  

^a NATIONAL JALMA INSTITUTE FOR LEPROSY AND OTHER MYCOBACTERIAL DISEASES   (India)

^b Field Unit (NJIL OMD)   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHILD; ELEPHANTIASIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROFILARIA; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SEX RATIO; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MICROFILARIA; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 33846425342     PISSN: 00195138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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