Onchocerca volvulus infection and serological prevalence, ocular onchocerciasis and parasite transmission in northern and central Togo after decades of Simulium damnosum s.l. vector control and mass drug administration of ivermectin

BACKGROUND: Mass drug administration (MDA) of ivermectin has become the main intervention to control onchocerciasis or “river blindness”. In Togo, after many years of MDA, Onchocerca volvulus infection has declined dramatically, and elimination appears achievable, but in certain river basins the cur...

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Autores principales: Komlan, Kossi, Vossberg, Patrick S., Gantin, Richard G., Solim, Tchalim, Korbmacher, Francois, Banla, Méba, Padjoudoum, Koffi, Karabou, Potchoziou, Köhler, Carsten, Soboslay, Peter T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5849363/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29494606
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006312

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