Treatment of Onchocerciasis
- 1 December 1996
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Drugs
- Vol. 52 (6), 861-869
- https://doi.org/10.2165/00003495-199652060-00007
Abstract
Onchocerciasis (‘river blindness’) has for several centuries been the scourge of people living in certain areas of the world where the disease is endemic. The treatment available up to 10 years ago,...Keywords
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