Erratum: Epidemiology and clinical features of patients with visceral leishmaniasis treated by an MSF clinic in Bakool Region, Somalia, 2004-2006 (Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases (2007) vol. 1 (1) 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000085);Epidemiology and clinical features of patients with visceral leishmaniasis treated by an MSF clinic in Bakool Region, Somalia, 2004-2006

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Raguenaud, Marie Eve ^a   Jansson, Anna ^b   Vanlerberghe, Veerle ^c   Van der Auwera, Geert ^c   Deborggraeve, Stijn ^c   Dujardin, Jean Claude ^c   Orfanos, Giannos ^b   Reid, Tony ^a   Boelaert, Marleen ^c  

^a MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Belgium)

^b MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STIBOGLUCONATE SODIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY CARE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FATALITY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; SCREENING TEST; SOMALIA; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TREND STUDY; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INTERVIEW; MASS SCREENING; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPLENOMEGALY; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVOR; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PATIENT DISCHARGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOMALIA; SPLENOMEGALY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVORS; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

EID: 47749112446     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000085     Document Type: Erratum

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