Investigations into the isolation of the Tukuyu focus of onchocerciasis (Tanzania) from S. damnosum s.l. vector re-invasion

Acta Tropica

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 86-96

  Maegga, B T A ^a   Kalinga, A K ^a   Kabula, B ^a   Post, R J ^b,c   Krueger, A ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Elimination; Malawi; Onchocerciasis; Re invasion; Ruvuma; Simulium damnosum complex; Simulium thyolense; Tanzania; Tukuyu

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; RIBOSOME DNA;

BREEDING POPULATION; CHROMOSOME; DETECTION METHOD; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE VECTOR; FLY; IDENTIFICATION KEY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PARASITIC DISEASE; POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CHROMOSOME POLYMORPHISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTAXONOMY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAWI; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCIASIS; POPULATION MIGRATION; RIVER BASIN; SIMULIUM; SIMULIUM DAMNOSUM; SIMULIUM THYOLENSE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPECIES INVASION; TANZANIA; VECTOR CONTROL;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; ONCHOCERCIASIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SIMULIIDAE; TANZANIA;

MALAWI; TANZANIA;

CUCURBITA; DAMNOSUM COMPLEX; SIMULIUM DAMNOSUM; SIMULIUM THYOLENSE;

EID: 78650979166     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2010.10.003     Document Type: Article

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