Onchocerciasis in South Arabia

1 May 1957

journal article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Vol. 51 (3), 253-256
https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(57)90025-1

Abstract

Summary 1. (1) A clinical description of an itching dermatitis of the leg, known as soda in S. Arabia, is given. 2. (2) Onchocercus volvulus has been found in such cases, and probably causes the dermatitis.

Keywords

ONCHOCERCIASIS/EPIDEMIOLOGY

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