The geographic distribution of onchocerciasis in the 20 participating countries of the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control: (1) priority areas for ivermectin treatment

BACKGROUND: The African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) was created to control onchocerciasis as a public health problem in 20 African countries. Its main strategy is community directed treatment with ivermectin. In order to identify all high risk areas where ivermectin treatment was nee...

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Autores principales: Noma, Mounkaila, Zouré, Honorat GM, Tekle, Afework H, Enyong, Peter AI, Nwoke, Bertram EB, Remme, Jan HF
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4223657/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25053266
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-7-325

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4223657/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25053266
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-7-325

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