Neglected tropical disease control in the "Post-American World"

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Hotez, Peter J ^a,b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b SABIN VACCINE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; AZITHROMYCIN; IVERMECTIN; MEBENDAZOLE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CHRONIC DISEASE; DENGUE; EDITORIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INTESTINE INFECTION; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRACHOMA; TREMATODIASIS; TROPICAL DISEASE;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; PARASITIC DISEASES;

EID: 78149239562     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000812     Document Type: Editorial

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