Epidemiology and psycho-social aspects of onchocercal skin diseases in northeastern Nigeria

Filaria Journal

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Okoye, Ikem Chris ^a,b   Onwuliri, Celestine O E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOS   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; DEPRESSION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NIGERIA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF ESTEEM; SHAME; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN INFECTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 39049084769     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2883-6-15     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Okulicz JF Stibich AS SDirk A Elston M Schwartz RA Cutaneous Onchocercoma International Journal of Dermatology 2004, 43:170-2. 10.1111/j.1365-4632.2004.02279.x 15009384
2. Ramaiah KD Guyat H Ramy K Vanamail P Pani SP Das PK Treatment costs and loss of Work-time to individuals with Chronic Lymphatic Filariasis in rural Communities in South India Tropical Medicine and International Health 1999, 4(1):19-25. 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1999.00351.x
3. World Health Organisation Changing History. The World Health Report 2004 WHO Geneva, Switzerland 2004:96.
4. Budden FH The Epidemiology of Onchocerciasis in Northern Nigeria Translations of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1956, 50:366-378 10.1016/0035-9203(56)90045-1
5. Crosskey RW A Review of Simulium damnosum S.l and Human Onchocerciasis in Nigeria with special reference to the Development of Nigerian National Control Campaign Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 1981, 32:2-16.
6. Bradley AK The effect of Disease on Rural economy, Social structure and settlement A case Study of Onchocerciasis in the Hawal River Valley, Nigeria 1972, 11. Unpublished Document WHO/ONCHO/72.93
7. Bradley AK The effects of Onchocerciasis on Settlement in the Middle Hawal Valley, Nigeria Translations of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1976, 70(3):225-235. 10.1016/0035-9203(76)90044-4
8. Ngoumou P Walsh JP Manual for Rapid Epidemiological Mapping of Onchocerciasis UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases and WHO Programme for the Prevention of Blindness 1993 37 TDR/TDE/ONCHO/93.4
9. Hammon DH Urban Views. Popular Perspectives on City life Urban Life 1986, 15:2-37.
10. Akogun OB Onwuliri COE Hyper-endemic Onchocerciasis in the Taraba River Valley, Gongola State Old Adamawa Province) Nigeria Annale Parasitologie Humane Compare 1991, 66(1):22-26.
11. Murdoch ME Hay RJ Mackenzie Cd William JF Ghalib H wCousens S Abiose A Jones B A Clinical Classification and Grading System of the Cutaneous changes in Onchocerciasis British Journal of Dermatology 1993, 129:260-9. 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1993.tb11844.x 8286222
12. Anderson J Fuglsang H Hamilton PJS Marshall de CTF Studies on Onchocerciasis in the United Cameroun Republic II. Comparison of Onchocerciasis in Rainforest and Sudan Savanna Translations of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1974, 68(3):209-222. 10.1016/ 0035-9203(74)90117-5
13. Burnham G Mebrahtu T Delivery of Ivermectin Tropical Medicine and International Health 2004, 9(4 Suppl):A4-A15.