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Progress in eliminating onchocerciasis in the WHO Region of the Americas: Advances towards Interrupting the transmission of onchocerciasis from the latest preliminary serological assessments conducted in parts of the Yanomami Focus Area, 2018-2022 / Progres vers l'elimination de l'onchocercose dans la Region OMS des Ameriques: recentes analyses serologiques preliminaires dans certaines parties de la zone Yanomami, indiquant des progres vers l'interruption de la transmission, 2018-2022.

• Source: Weekly Epidemiological Record. September 29, 2023, Vol. 98 Issue 39, p453, 5 p.

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Elimination of human onchocerciasis: progress report, 2021/Elimination de l'onchocercose humaine: rapport de situation, 2021.

• Source: Weekly Epidemiological Record. November 18, 2022, Vol. 97 Issue 46, p591, 8 p.

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Progress in eliminating onchocerciasis in the WHO Region of the Americas: Advances in reaching the last endemic communities of the South Focus in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela/Progres vers l'elimination de l'onchocercose dans la Region OMS des Ameriques: avancees pour proteger les dernieres communautes d'endemie du foyer sud de la Republique bolivarienne du Venezuela.

• Source: Weekly Epidemiological Record. September 30, 2022, Vol. 97 Issue 39, p481, 4 p.

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Onchocerciasis (river blindness). Report from the sixteenth InterAmerican Conference on Onchocerciasis, Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala.

Subjects: Onchocerciasis, Ocular/Onchocerciasis, Ocular/Onchocerciasis, Ocular/*prevention & control; Brazil/Brazil/Brazil/epidemiology ; Colombia/Colombia/Colombia/epidemiology

• Source: Releve epidemiologique hebdomadaire [Wkly Epidemiol Rec] 2007 Aug 31; Vol. 82 (35), pp. 314-6.Publisher: World Health Organization Country of Publication: Switzerland NLM ID: 0240017 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Print ISSN:

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Report from the Inter-American Conference on Onchocerciasis, November 2007.

Subjects: Onchocerciasis, Ocular/Onchocerciasis, Ocular/Onchocerciasis, Ocular/*prevention & control; Brazil/Brazil/Brazil/epidemiology ; Colombia/Colombia/Colombia/epidemiology

• Source: Releve epidemiologique hebdomadaire [Wkly Epidemiol Rec] 2008 Jul 18; Vol. 83 (29), pp. 256-60.Publisher: World Health Organization Country of Publication: Switzerland NLM ID: 0240017 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Print ISSN:

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Diurnal biting periodicity of parous Simulium (Diptera: Simuliidae) vectors in the onchocerciasis Amazonian focus.

• Authors : Grillet ME; Laboratorio de Biología de Vectores, Instituto de Zoología Tropical, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Apartado Postal 47072, Caracas 1041-A, Venezuela.; Villamizar NJ

Subjects: Circadian Rhythm* ; Models, Biological*; Insect Vectors/Insect Vectors/Insect Vectors/*physiology

• Source: Acta tropica [Acta Trop] 2005 May; Vol. 94 (2), pp. 139-58. Date of Electronic Publication: 2005 Apr 20.Publisher: Elsevier Country of Publication: Netherlands NLM ID: 0370374 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 0001-706X

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Geographical patterns of onchocerciasis in southern Venezuela: relationships between environment and infection prevalence.

• Authors : Botto C; Instituto de Medicina Tropical/Universidad Central de Venezuela/Ciudad Universitaria, Caracas, Venezuela. ; Escalona E

Subjects: Environment* ; Geographic Information Systems* ; Topography, Medical*

• Source: Parassitologia [Parassitologia] 2005 Mar; Vol. 47 (1), pp. 145-50.Publisher: Istituto di parassitologia, Città universitaria Country of Publication: Italy NLM ID: 0413724 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Print

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Prediction of community prevalence of human onchocerciasis in the Amazonian onchocerciasis focus: Bayesian approach.

• Authors : Carabin H; Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, USA.; Escalona M

Subjects: Bayes Theorem*; Onchocerciasis/Onchocerciasis/Onchocerciasis/*epidemiology; Adolescent

• Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization [Bull World Health Organ] 2003; Vol. 81 (7), pp. 482-90. Date of Electronic Publication: 2003 Sep 03.Publisher: World Health Organization Country of Publication: Switzerland NLM ID: 7507052 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Print

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Parasitological indicators of onchocerciasis relevant to ivermectin control programmes in the Amazonian focus of Southern Venezuela.

• Authors : Vivas-Martínez S; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.; Basáñez MG

Subjects: Anthelmintics/Anthelmintics/Anthelmintics/*administration & dosage ; Ivermectin/Ivermectin/Ivermectin/*administration & dosage ; Onchocerca volvulus/Onchocerca volvulus/Onchocerca volvulus/*growth & development

• Source: Parasitology [Parasitology] 2000 Nov; Vol. 121 Pt 5, pp. 527-34.Publisher: Cambridge University Press Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 0401121 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Print ISSN:

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Amazonian onchocerciasis: parasitological profiles by host-age, sex, and endemicity in southern Venezuela.

• Authors : Vivas-Martínez S; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.; Basáñez MG

Subjects: Onchocerca volvulus/Onchocerca volvulus/Onchocerca volvulus/*growth & development ; Onchocerciasis/Onchocerciasis/Onchocerciasis/*parasitology; Adolescent

• Source: Parasitology [Parasitology] 2000 Nov; Vol. 121 Pt 5, pp. 513-25.Publisher: Cambridge University Press Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 0401121 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Print ISSN:

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