Lack of active Onchocerca volvulus transmission in the Northern Chiapas focus of Mexico

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 15-20

  Rodríguez Pérez, Mario A ^a   Unnasch, Thomas R ^b   Domínguez Vázquez, Alfredo ^c   Morales Castro, Alba L ^c   Richards Jr , Frank ^d   Peña Flores, Graciela P ^e   Orozco Algarra, María Eugenia ^e   Prado Velasco, Gibert ^f  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Murano Center   (Guatemala)

^d CARTER CENTER   (United States)

^e SECRETARÍA DE SALUD   (Mexico)

^f Instituto de Salud de Chiapas   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IVERMECTIN;

ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ARTICLE; CHILD; CORNEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; MEXICO; MICROFILARIA; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HUMANS; IVERMECTIN; MEXICO; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS;

ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; SIMULIUM OCHRACEUM;

EID: 77954576981     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.09-0626     Document Type: Article

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