The relationships between the burden of adult parasites, host age and the microfilarial density in human onchocerciasis
- 29 March 2004
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in International Journal for Parasitology
- Vol. 34 (4), 463-473
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2003.11.008
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