Successful interruption of transmission of Onchocerca volvulus in the Escuintla-Guatemala focus, Guatemala.

• मुख्य लेखकों: Rodrigo J Gonzalez (लेखक), Nancy Cruz-Ortiz (लेखक), Nidia Rizzo (लेखक), Jane Richards (लेखक), Guillermo Zea-Flores (लेखक), Alfredo Domínguez (लेखक), Mauricio Sauerbrey (लेखक), Eduardo Catú (लेखक), Orlando Oliva (लेखक), Frank O Richards (लेखक), Kim A Lindblade (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
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BACKGROUND: Elimination of onchocerciasis (river blindness) through mass administration of ivermectin in the six countries in Latin America where it is endemic is considered feasible due to the relatively small size and geographic isolation of endemic foci. We evaluated whether transmission of oncho...