Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Volume 98, Issue 9 , Pages 520-528 , September 2004

Impact of four years of large-scale ivermectin treatment with low therapeutic coverage on the transmission of Onchocerca volvulus in the Mbam valley focus, central Cameroon

  • S.D.S Pion

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    • Present address: Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UR 079-GEODES, 32 avenue Henri Varagnat, 93143 Bondy Cedex, France.
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  • M.C.A Clément

      Affiliations

    • Present address: Service de Parasitologie, CHU Pitié-Salpétrière, 47 Boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75651 Paris Cedex 13, France.
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  • M Boussinesq

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Present address: Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Département Sociétés et Santé, 213 rue La Fayette, 75480 Paris Cedex 10, France. Tel.: +33-1-42-49-38-15; fax: +33-1-42-49-38-15.

Received 13 August 2003 ,Revised 6 November 2003 ,Accepted 13 November 2003.

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doi: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2003.11.010

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Volume 98, Issue 9 , Pages 520-528 , September 2004

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