Tracking the vector of Onchocerca lupi in a rural area of Greece

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1196-1200

  Otranto, Domenico ^a   Dantas Torres, Filipe ^b   Papadopoulos, Elias ^c   Petrić, Dušan ^d   Ćupina, Aleksandra Ignjatović ^d   Bain, Odile ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c Faculty of Veterinary Medicine   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^e MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOG; GREECE; HUMAN; KERATITIS; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCA LUPI; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITE EXAMINATION; RURAL AREA; THELAZIA CALLIPAEDA; UVEITIS;

ANIMALS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; GREECE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCIASIS, OCULAR; RURAL POPULATION; SIMULIIDAE;

EID: 84862564600     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1807.AD1807     Document Type: Article

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