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Parasite
Volume 1, Number 1S, March 1994
3rd CEC Filariasis Network Meeting (Lisbon -IHMT, 4-7 September 1993)
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| Page(s) | S4 - S6 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/parasite/199401s1004 | |
| Published online | 01 October 2014 | |
Cattle, worms and zooprophylaxis
1
Fachgebiet Parasitologie, Universität Hohenheim, Emil-Wolf-Strasse 34, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany.
2
Medical Research Station, P.O. Box 55, Kumba, Cameroon.
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Institut für Tropenmedizin, Wilhelmstrasse 27, 72074 Tübingen, Germany.
Epidemiological studies in North Cameroon indicate that a high population density of cattle in relation to man protects from severe onchocerciasis. In the following, we present a mathematical model which allows to study the effects of zoophily of the vectors, of concomitant immunity in the human population and of cross-protective immunity caused by the infective larvae of a bovine parasite, Onchocerca ochengi, inoculated into man by Simulium damnosum s.l. Besides this influence on onchocerciasis, cattle also play a major role in the epidemiology of malaria (zooprophylaxis through vector dilution) and schistosomiasis (protection by crossreactive concomitant immunity).
Key words: onchocerciasis / crossprotective immunity / zooprophylaxis / epidemiology / mathematical model / Cameroon
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