The CNCDs and the NTDs: Blurring the lines dividing noncommunicable and communicable chronic diseases

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Hotez, Peter J ^a   Daar, Abdallah S ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BLADDER CANCER; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLONORCHIASIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDITORIAL; FASCIOLIASIS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INFECTION CONTROL; OPISTHORCHIASIS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TOXOCARIASIS; TRICHURIASIS; TROPICAL DISEASE; HEALTH; MORTALITY; STATISTICS; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HUMANS; TROPICAL MEDICINE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 56149113865     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000312     Document Type: Editorial

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