Vector competence of Simulium oyapockense s.l. and S. incrustatum for Onchocerca volvulus: Implications for ivermectin-based control in the Amazonian focus of human onchocerciasis, a multi-vector-host system

Acta Tropica

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 80-89

  Grillet, María Eugenia ^a,b   Villamizar, Nestor J ^b   Frontado, Hortencia L ^c   Cortez, José ^b   Escalona, Marisela ^b   Botto, Carlos ^b,d   Basáñez, María Gloria ^b,e  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Venezuela)

^b Centro Amazonico para Investigacion y Control de Enfermedades Tropicales Simon Bolivar (CAICET)   (Venezuela)

^c MSDS   (Venezuela)

^d UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Density dependence; Ivermectin; Onchocerca volvulus; S. oyapockense s.l.; Simulium incrustatum; Vector parasite interactions; Venezuela

Indexed keywords

IVERMECTIN;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DISEASE VECTOR; FLY; IVERMECTIN; NEMATODE; PEST CONTROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; LARVA; MALE; MICROFILARIA; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; SIMULIUM; SIMULIUM INCRUSTATUM; SIMULIUM OYAPOCKENSE; SKIN;

ANIMALS; ANTIPARASITIC AGENTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; IVERMECTIN; MICROFILARIA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; SIMULIIDAE; VENEZUELA;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA; VENEZUELA;

ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; SIMULIUM GUIANENSE; SIMULIUM INCRUSTATUM; SIMULIUM OYAPOCKENSE;

EID: 47549105495     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2008.04.021     Document Type: Article

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