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Vectors of Onchocerca volvulus at the river Toototobi, Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2009

A. J. Shelley ,
R. R. Pinger ,
M. A. P. Moraes ,
J. D. Charlwood  and
J. Hayes
A. J. Shelley
Affiliation:
Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Caixa Postal 926, 20.000 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
R. R. Pinger
Affiliation:
Department of Physiology and Health Science, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana 47306, USA
M. A. P. Moraes
Affiliation:
Instituto Evandro Chagas, Caixa Postal 232, 66.000 Belem, Para, Brazil
J. D. Charlwood
Affiliation:
Instituto National de Pesquisas na Amazonia, Caixa Postal 478, 69.000 Manaus, Brazil
J. Hayes
Affiliation:
Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, Texas Technical School of Medicine, Lubbock, Texas, 79409, USA
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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 53 , Issue 1 , March 1979 , pp. 41 - 43
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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