Elimination of the Djodji form of the blackfly <i>Simulium sanctipauli</i> sensu stricto as a result of larviciding by the WHO Onchocerciasis Control Programme in West Africa

Cheke, Robert; Fiasorgbor, G.K.; F. Walsh, J.; Yaméogo, L.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2915.2008.00725.x

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Elimination of the Djodji form of the blackfly Simulium sanctipauli sensu stricto as a result of larviciding by the WHO Onchocerciasis Control Programme in West Africa

Published in Medical and Veterinary Entomology • May 22, 2008

Authors:

Robert Cheke

G.K. Fiasorgbor

J. F. Walsh

Abstract

Cytotaxonomic identifications of larvae of members of the Simulium damnosum Theobald (Diptera: Simuliidae) complex collected in forest zones of southeast Ghana and southwest Togo between 1977 and 1996 showed that the Djodji form of Simulium sanctipauli Vajime & Dunbar, a vector of onchocerciasis, wa...

Subject

Onchocerciasis

Biology

Simulium

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