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From river blindness control to elimination: bridge over troubled water

BACKGROUND: An estimated 25 million people are currently infected with onchocerciasis (a parasitic infection caused by the filarial nematode Onchocerca volvulus and transmitted by Simulium vectors), and 99% of these are in sub-Saharan Africa. The African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control closed i...

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Autores principales: Colebunders, Robert, Basáñez, Maria-Gloria, Siling, Katja, Post, Rory J., Rotsaert, Anke, Mmbando, Bruno, Suykerbuyk, Patrick, Hopkins, Adrian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5872540/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29587844
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-018-0406-7