Feasibility of onchocerciasis elimination with ivermectin treatment in endemic foci in Africa: First evidence from studies in Mali and Senegal

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Diawara, Lamine ^a   Traoré, Mamadou O ^b   Badji, Alioune ^a   Bissan, Yiriba ^c   Doumbia, Konimba ^b   Goita, Soula F ^b   Konaté, Lassana ^d   Mounkoro, Kalifa ^b   Sarr, Moussa D ^a   Seck, Amadou F ^a   Toé, Laurent ^c   Tourée, Seyni ^a   Remme, Jan H F ^e  

^a Ministere de la Sante et de la Prevention Medicale Senegal   (Senegal)

^b Direction Nationale de la Sante   (Mali)

^c Multi disease Surveillance Centre   (Burkina Faso)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IVERMECTIN; ANTIFILARIAL AGENT; HELMINTH DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE CITRATE PATCH TEST; ENDEMIC DISEASE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; MALI; MICROFILARIASIS; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; SENEGAL; SKIN SNIP; VECTOR CONTROL; ADULT; ANIMAL; FEMALE; FLY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; DNA, HELMINTH; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; FILARICIDES; HUMANS; IVERMECTIN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MALI; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SENEGAL; SIMULIIDAE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449555923     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000497     Document Type: Article

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