RNAS+: A win-win collaboration to combat neglected tropical diseases in Southeast Asia

Parasitology International

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 243-245

  Zhou, Xiao Nong ^a   Ohta, Nobuo ^b   Utzinger, Jürg ^c   Bergquist, Robert ^d   Olveda, Remigio M ^e  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d Research Institute for Tropical Medicine ^*  (Sweden)

^e RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Philippines)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMBODIA; CHINA; CLONORCHIASIS; CYSTICERCOSIS; EDITORIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FASCIOLIASIS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INDONESIA; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; JAPAN; LAOS; OPISTHORCHIASIS; PARAGONIMIASIS; PARASITOSIS; PHILIPPINES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TAENIASIS; TREMATODIASIS; TROPICAL DISEASE; UNITED NATIONS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

EID: 44949237823     PISSN: 13835769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2008.04.001     Document Type: Editorial

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