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Original Articles

A Quantitative Survey of Onchocerciasis in Persons Under Twenty Years of Age in an Endemic Area of Northern Nigeria

With a Consideration of the Epidemiology Based on a Mathematical Hypothesis by F. N. Macnamara

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Pages 10-24 | Received 31 Dec 1957, Published online: 17 Mar 2016

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