Ongoing Transmission of Onchocerca volvulus after 25 Years of Annual Ivermectin Mass Treatments in the Vina du Nord River Valley, in North Cameroon

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Eisenbarth, Albert ^a,b   Achukwi, Mbunkah Daniel ^c   Renz, Alfons ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Programme Onchocercoses Field Station of the University of Tübingen   (Cameroon)

^c INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOR DEVELOPMENT IRAD   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IVERMECTIN; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; INSECTICIDE;

ARTICLE; CAMEROON; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISSECTION; FEMALE; FLY BITE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LARVA; MASS SCREENING; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCA OCHENGI; ONCHOCERCA RAMACHANDRINI; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; SIMULIUM DAMNOSUM; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; ZOOLOGY; ANIMAL; BOVINE; CATTLE DISEASES; DRUG EFFECTS; INSECT VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RIVER; RURAL POPULATION; SIMULIIDAE; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CAMEROON; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTICIDES; IVERMECTIN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; RIVERS; RURAL POPULATION; SIMULIIDAE;

EID: 84959273350     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004392     Document Type: Article

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