Eye disease related to onchocerciasis: A clinical study in the Aratha-ú, Yanomami Tribe, Roraima State, Brazil

Acta Tropica

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 115-119

  Neto, Guilherme Herzog ^a   Jaegger, Karen ^a   Marchon Silva, Verônica ^b   Calvão Brito, Regina Helena Santos ^b   Vieira, João Batista ^c   Banic, Dalma Maria ^b   Maia Herzog, Marilza ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITÁRIO ANTÔNIO PEDRO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c MINISTÉRIO DA SAÚDE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Eyes lesions; Onchocerciasis; Roraima Brazil; Yanomami

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EYE DISEASE; LESION; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMICROSCOPY; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHORIORETINITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EOSINOPHILIA; EYE DISEASE; EYE EXAMINATION; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; IRIDOCYCLITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROFILARIA; ONCHOCERCIASIS; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PUNCTATE KERATITIS; SKIN NODULE; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE;

BRAZIL; RORAIMA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 70349173957     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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