Individual exposure to Simulium bites and intensity of Onchocerca volvulus infection

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Jacobi, C A ^a,c   Enyong, P ^b   Renz, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Medical Research Station Kumba   (Cameroon)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MAGDEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREEDING; CAMEROON; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; HUMAN; INSECT BITE; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; RAIN FOREST; SIMULIUM DAMNOSUM; SUDAN;

DAMNOSUM COMPLEX; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; SIMULIUM DAMNOSUM; SIMULIUM NIGRICOXUM;

EID: 77953642474     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-3-53     Document Type: Article

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