Dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm Disease) Eradication

Advances in Parasitology

Volumn 61, Issue , 2006, Pages 275-309

  Ruiz Tiben, Ernesto ^a   Hopkins, Donald R ^a  

^a CARTER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

CLINICAL FEATURE; DRACUNCULIASIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; LIFE CYCLE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ASIA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DRACUNCULIASIS; DRACUNCULUS NEMATODE; HUMANS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WATER; WATER SUPPLY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

DRACUNCULUS MEDINENSIS;

EID: 33747158883     PISSN: 0065308X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-308X(05)61007-X     Document Type: Review

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