One Hundred Years After Its Discovery in Guatemala by Rodolfo Robles, Onchocerca volvulus Transmission Has Been Eliminated from the Central Endemic Zone

We report the elimination of Onchocerca volvulus transmission from the Central Endemic Zone (CEZ) of onchocerciasis in Guatemala, the largest focus of this disease in the Americas and the first to be discovered in this hemisphere by Rodolfo Robles Valverde in 1915. Mass drug administration (MDA) wit...

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Veröffentlicht in:Am J Trop Med Hyg
Hauptverfasser: Richards, Frank, Rizzo, Nidia, Espinoza, Carlos Enrique Diaz, Monroy, Zoraida Morales, Valdez, Carol Guillermina Crovella, de Cabrera, Renata Mendizabal, de Leon, Oscar, Zea-Flores, Guillermo, Sauerbrey, Mauricio, Morales, Alba Lucia, Rios, Dalila, Unnasch, Thomas R., Hassan, Hassan K., Klein, Robert, Eberhard, Mark, Cupp, Ed, Domínguez, Alfredo
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2015
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4674249/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26503275
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.15-0364
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