Onchocerciasis in a teenager from Africa

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 140, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1161-1166

  Leake, John A D ^a   Pong, Alice L ^a   Scher, Colin A ^a   Newbury, Robert O ^a   Cunningham, Bari B ^a  

^a RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IVERMECTIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EXCISION; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN EXAMINATION; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

EID: 4544340208     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.140.9.1161-h     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. World Health Organization, WHO fact sheets: onchocerciasis (river blindness). Available at: http://www.who.int/health-topics/oncho.htm. Accessed June 9, 2004.
2. Freedman D. Onchocerciasis. In: Guerrant RL, Walker DH, Weller PF, eds. Tropical Infectious Diseases. New York, NY: Churchill Livingstone Inc; 1999:873-886.
3. McCarthy JS, Ottesen EA, Nutman TB. Onchocerciasis in endemic and nonendemic populations: differences in clinical presentation and immunologic findings. J Infect Dis, 1994;170:736-741.
4. Wortman PD. Protozoan and helminth infections. In: Harahap M, ed. Diagnosis and Treatment of Skin Infections. Malden, Mass: Blackwell Publishers; 1997: 286-290.
5. Hall LR, Pearlman E. Pathogenesis of onchocercal keralitis (river blindness). Clin Microbiol Rev. 1999;12:445-453.