Comment on: What do community-based dengue control programmes achieve? A systematic review of published evaluations

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 630-631

  Pérez, Dennis ^a   Lefèvre, Pierre ^b   Sánchez, Lizet ^a   Van der Stuyft, Patrick ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL PEDRO KOURÍ   (Cuba)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CARE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DENGUE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LETTER; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; SCORING SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DENGUE; HUMANS; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PROGRAM EVALUATION;

EID: 34247165512     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2007.02.010     Document Type: Letter

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