Trachoma in Western Equatoria State, southern Sudan: Implications for national control

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Kur, Lucia W ^a   Picon, Diana ^b   Adibo, Obec ^a   Robinson, Emily ^c   Sabasio, Anthony ^b   Edwards, Tansy ^d   Ndyaba, Aggrey ^b   Rumunu, John ^a   Lewis, Karinya ^e   Lado, Mounir ^a   Kolaczinski, Jan ^c,d  

^a Ministry of Health   (Sudan)

^b Malaria Consortium   (Sudan)

^c MALARIA CONSORTIUM   (United Kingdom)

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

^e Christoffel Blindenmission ^*  (Sudan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; MALE; RANDOM SAMPLE; SUDAN; TRACHOMA; GEOGRAPHY; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PREVALENCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SUDAN; TRACHOMA;

EID: 70449494321     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000492     Document Type: Article

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