Reconsidering the underestimated burden caused by neglected tropical diseases

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 363-366

  Engels, Dirk ^a   Savioli, Lorenzo ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFECTION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TAENIA SOLIUM; TROPICAL DISEASE; WELLBEING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COST OF ILLNESS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; LIFE EXPECTANCY; POVERTY; QUALITY OF LIFE; TROPICAL MEDICINE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 33746318032     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2006.06.004     Document Type: Article

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