The burden of skin disease and eye disease due to onchocerciasis in countries formerly under the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control mandate for 1990, 2020, and 2030

BACKGROUND: Onchocerciasis (“river blindness”) can cause severe morbidity, including vision loss and various skin manifestations, and is targeted for elimination using ivermectin mass drug administration (MDA). We calculated the number of people with Onchocerca volvulus infection and onchocercal ski...

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Autores principales: Vinkeles Melchers, Natalie V. S., Stolk, Wilma A., van Loon, Welmoed, Pedrique, Belén, Bakker, Roel, Murdoch, Michele E., de Vlas, Sake J., Coffeng, Luc E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8312930/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34310602
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009604

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8312930/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34310602
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009604

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