Epidermal parasitic skin diseases: A neglected category of poverty-associated plagues

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 152-159

  Feldmeier, Hermann ^a   Heukelbach, Jorg ^b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH CARE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MORBIDITY; PARASITIC DISEASE; POVERTY; PUBLIC ACCESS; RISK FACTOR; SKIN DISORDER; URBANIZATION;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CUTANEOUS LARVA MIGRANS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FILARIASIS; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HELMINTHIASIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFESTATION; LIFE CYCLE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PEDICULOSIS; PEDICULOSIS CAPITIS; POVERTY; PSYCHODIDAE; PUBIC PEDICULOSIS; RESERVOIR; REVIEW; SARCOPTES SCABIEI; SCABIES; SEASONAL VARIATION; TUNGIASIS; URBANIZATION;

ANIMALS; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; POVERTY; RISK FACTORS;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANIMALIA;

EID: 61449091471     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.07.047308     Document Type: Review

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