Bringing neglected tropical diseases into the spotlight

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 421-423

  Payne, Lara ^a   Fitchett, Joseph R ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; AZITHROMYCIN; EFLORNITHINE; IVERMECTIN; MEBENDAZOLE; MELARSOPROL; NIFURTIMOX; PENTAMIDINE; PRAZIQUANTEL; SURAMIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ASCARIASIS; BARTONELLOSIS; BURULI ULCER; CHAGAS DISEASE; DENGUE; DRACUNCULIASIS; FILARIASIS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS; LEPROSY; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MALARIA; MYCETOMA; ONCHOCERCIASIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RABIES; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SHORT SURVEY; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TOXOCARIASIS; TRACHOMA; TRICHURIASIS; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; POVERTY; TROPICAL CLIMATE; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

EID: 77955927364     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2010.06.002     Document Type: Short Survey

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