Yaws: A second (and maybe last?) chance for eradication

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Rinaldi, Andrea ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN V; PROCAINE PENICILLIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHILD HEALTH; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; YAWS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; HUMANS; YAWS;

EID: 56149112947     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000275     Document Type: Article

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