Landscape Epidemiology of Human Onchocerciasis in Southern Venezuela

Encyclopedia of Environmental Health

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 366-379

  Botto, C ^a   Villamizar, N J ^b   Jocik, Z ^b   Cortes J ^b   Escalona, M ^b   Grillet, M E ^c   Basanez M G ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^b National Institute of Agricultural Research   (Venezuela)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amazonas; Guianan Shield; Infection risk; Ivermectin; Landscape epidemiology; Onchocerca volvulus; Onchocerciasis; Rainforest; Seminomadism; Simulium guianense; Simulium incrustatum; Simulium oyapockense; Vector borne disease; Venezuela; Yanomami

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861212723     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-52272-6.00693-0     Document Type: Chapter

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