Elimination of onchocerciasis from Mexico

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Rodríguez Pérez, Mario A ^a,i   Fernández Santos, Nadia A ^b   Orozco Algarra, María E ^b   Rodríguez Atanacio, José A ^b   Domínguez Vázquez, Alfredo ^c   Rodríguez Morales, Kristel B ^a   Real Najarro, Olga ^d   Prado Velasco, Francisco G ^e   Cupp, Eddie W ^f   Richards, Frank O ^g   Hassan, Hassan K ^h   González Roldán, Jesús F ^b   Kuri Morales, Pablo A ^b   Unnasch, Thomas R ^h  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^b SECRETARÍA DE SALUD   (Mexico)

^c Consejería de Educación ^*  (Guatemala)

^d Servicio de Epidemiología   (Spain)

^e Unidad Administrativa   (Mexico)

^f AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g CARTER CENTER   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

ⁱ INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IVERMECTIN; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLY BITE; HUMAN; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCIASIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; INSECT VECTOR; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIMULIIDAE; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; IVERMECTIN; MALE; MEXICO; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; SIMULIIDAE;

EID: 84938674540     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003922     Document Type: Article

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