Awareness about kala-azar disease and related preventive attitudes and practices in a highly endemic rural area of India

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-12

  Siddiqui, N A ^a   Kumar, Narendra ^a   Ranjan, A ^a   Pandey, K ^a   Das, V N R ^a   Verma, R B ^a   Das, P ^a  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Kala azar; KAP; Rural India; Visceral leishmaniasis

Indexed keywords

EID: 76949085137     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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