Assessing the presence of Wuchereria bancrofti in vector and human populations from urban communities in Conakry, Guinea

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Kouassi, Bernard L ^a,b,c,d   De Souza, Dziedzom K ^e   Goepogui, Andre ^f   Narh, Charles A ^e   King, Sandra A ^e   Mamadou, Baldé S ^f   Diakité, Lamia ^f   Dadzie, Samuel K ^e   Boakye, Daniel A ^e   Utzinger, Jürg ^c,d   Bockarie, Moses J ^g   Koudou, Benjamin G ^a,b,g  

^a CENTRE SUISSE DE RECHERCHES SCIENTIFIQUES EN CÔTE D'IVOIRE   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^b UNIVERSITÉ NANGUI ABROGOUA   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^c SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e University of Ghana   (Ghana)

^f Prog Natl de Lutte Contre l'Onchocercose le Trachome et les Autres Maladies Tropicales Negligees Ministère de la Santé Publique   (Guinea)

^g LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Guinea; Lymphatic filariasis; Mass drug administration; Transmission; Wuchereria bancrofti

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATING FILARIAL ANTIGEN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; BANCROFTIAN FILARIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GUINEA; HUMAN; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MANSONELLA; MANSONIA UNIFORMIS; MICROFILARIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PREVALENCE; URBAN POPULATION; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI; ANIMAL; BLOOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOSQUITO; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CULICIDAE; GUINEA; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; URBAN POPULATION; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 84942412128     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-015-1077-x     Document Type: Article

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