Successful interruption of transmission of Onchocerca volvulus in the Escuintla-Guatemala focus, Guatemala

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Gonzalez, Rodrigo J ^a   Cruz Ortiz, Nancy ^a   Rizzo, Nidia ^a   Richards, Jane ^a   Zea Flores, Guillermo ^b   Domínguez, Alfredo ^b   Sauerbrey, Mauricio ^b   Catú, Eduardo ^c   Oliva, Orlando ^b   Richards Jr , Frank O ^d   Lindblade, Kim A ^e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE DE GUATEMALA   (Guatemala)

^b Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas   (Guatemala)

^c Laboratorio Nacional de Salud de Guatemala   (Guatemala)

^d CARTER CENTER   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; IVERMECTIN; PARASITE ANTIBODY; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CHILD; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GUATEMALA; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROFILARIA (NEMATODE LARVA); MORBIDITY; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIMULIUM DAMNOSUM; ANIMAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FLY; PARASITOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; GUATEMALA; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; IVERMECTIN; MALE; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PREVALENCE; SIMULIIDAE;

EID: 65549105016     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000404     Document Type: Article

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