Entomological assessment of the transmission following recrudescence of onchocerciasis in the Comoé Valley, Burkina Faso

BACKGROUND: Onchocerciasis, or river blindness, is a dermal filariasis caused by infection with the nematode parasite Onchocerca volvulus, transmitted to humans through the bites of blackflies of the genus Simulium. Despite the decade-long West African Regional Programme for the Elimination of Oncho...

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Autores principales: Koala, Lassane, Nikièma, Achille S., Paré, Alain B., Drabo, François, Toé, Laurent D., Belem, Adrien M. G., Boakye, Daniel A., Traoré, Soungalo, Dabiré, Roch K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6332526/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30646934
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-019-3290-5

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6332526/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30646934
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-019-3290-5

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