Integrated mapping of neglected tropical diseases: Epidemiological findings and control implications for Northern Bahr-el-Ghazal State, Southern Sudan

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Sturrock, Hugh J W ^a,b   Picon, Diana ^a   Sabasio, Anthony ^a   Oguttu, David ^c   Robinson, Emily ^d   Lado, Mounir ^e   Rumunu, John ^e   Brooker, Simon ^b,f   Kolaczinski, Jan H ^b,d  

^a Malaria Consortium   (Sudan)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

^d MALARIA CONSORTIUM   (United Kingdom)

^e Ministry of Health   (Sudan)

^f KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FECES ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOOKWORM; HUMAN; LOIASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASE; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SUDAN; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TROPICAL DISEASE; URINALYSIS; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI; ADULT; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; FECES; FEMALE; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA COLLECTION; FECES; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; PREVALENCE; SUDAN; TROPICAL CLIMATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449475558     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000537     Document Type: Article

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