Elimination of onchocerciasis from Colombia: first proof of concept of river blindness elimination in the world

BACKGROUND: Onchocerciasis is a chronic parasitic infection originally endemic in 13 discrete regional foci distributed among six countries of Latin America (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico and Venezuela). In Colombia, this disease was discovered in 1965 in the Pacific Coast of the coun...

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Autores principales: Nicholls, Rubén Santiago, Duque, Sofía, Olaya, Luz Adriana, López, Myriam Consuelo, Sánchez, Sol Beatriz, Morales, Alba Lucía, Palma, Gloria Inés
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5896109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29642939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-018-2821-9

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5896109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29642939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-018-2821-9

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