Controlling sleeping sickness-"when will they ever learn?"

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Molyneux, David ^a   Ndung'u, Joseph ^b   Maudlin, Ian ^c  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b FIND   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFLORNITHINE; NIFURTIMOX; PENTAMIDINE; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENT;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARTICLE; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CONTROL STRATEGY; DRUG COST; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INFECTION CONTROL; INSECT CONTROL; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; NONHUMAN; POVERTY; VECTOR CONTROL; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG RESISTANCE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HISTORY; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; REVIEW; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; TRYPANOSOMA; TSETSE FLY;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DRUG RESISTANCE; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; TSETSE FLIES;

EID: 77955294378     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000609     Document Type: Article

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