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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...
Autores principales: | Noma, Mounkaila, Zouré, Honorat GM, Tekle, Afework H, Enyong, Peter AI, Nwoke, Bertram EB, Remme, Jan HF |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2014
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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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