Lymphatic filariasis in Luangwa District, South-East Zambia

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Shawa, Sheila Tamara ^a   Mwase, Enala T ^a   Pedersen, Erling M ^b   Simonsen, Paul E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Antibodies to Bm14; Circulating filarial antigens; Epidemiology; Human perception; Lymphatic filariasis; Microfilariae; Vector mosquitos; Wuchereria bancrofti; Zambia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROFILARIA (NEMATODE LARVA); NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL CHILD; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI; ZAMBIA;

ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI; YOUNG ADULT; ZAMBIA;

EID: 84885343268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-299     Document Type: Article

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