Can Southeast Asia eradicate yaws by 2010? Some lessons from the yaws eradication programme of india

National Medical Journal of India

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 81-86

  Lahariya, Chandrakant ^a   Pradhan, S K ^a  

^a LADY HARDINGE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ERADICATION THERAPY; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INDIA; INDONESIA; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SANITATION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TIMOR-LESTE; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; YAWS;

ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INDIA; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; REGIONAL MEDICAL PROGRAMS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; YAWS;

EID: 34447503259     PISSN: 0970258X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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