Progress toward global eradication of dracunculiasis, January 2005-May 2007

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 56, Issue 32, 2007, Pages 813-817

  Hopkins, D R ^a   Ruiz Tiben, E ^a   Eberhard, M L ^b   Roy, S ^b  

^a CARTER CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DRACUNCULIASIS; GHANA; HEALTH; HUMAN; NIGERIA; SUDAN;

DRACUNCULIASIS; GHANA; HUMANS; NIGERIA; SUDAN; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 34548039954     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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