Mass Administration of Ivermectin for the Elimination of Onchocerciasis Significantly Reduced and Maintained Low the Prevalence of Strongyloides stercoralis in Esmeraldas, Ecuador

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Anselmi, Mariella ^a   Buonfrate, Dora ^b   Guevara Espinoza, Angel ^c   Prandi, Rosanna ^a   Marquez, Monica ^a   Gobbo, Maria ^b   Montresor, Antonio ^d   Albonico, Marco ^e   Racines Orbe, Marcia ^c   Martin Moreira, Juan ^a   Bisoffi, Zeno ^f  

^a Centro de Epidemiologia Comunitaria Y Medicina Tropical Cecomet   (Ecuador)

^b Centro Per Le Malattie Tropicali   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^e Fondazione Ivo de Carneri   (Italy)

^f SACRO CUORE DON CALABRIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IVERMECTIN; PARASITE ANTIBODY; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ELIMINATION; ECUADOR; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FOLLOW UP; GROUP THERAPY; HOOKWORM; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE SERODIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; AGED; ANIMAL; ASCARIASIS; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; TRICHURIASIS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; ASCARIASIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG THERAPY; ECUADOR; FEMALE; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IVERMECTIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TRICHURIASIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84949591028     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004150     Document Type: Article

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