Control strategies for endemic childhood scabies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Gilmore, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COMMUNITY PROGRAM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HEALTH ECONOMICS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; MASS SCREENING; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; SCABIES; STATISTICS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PUBLIC HEALTH; SARCOPTES SCABIEI;

SARCOPTES SCABIEI;

ANIMALS; CHILD; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SARCOPTES SCABIEI; SCABIES;

EID: 79551507898     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015990     Document Type: Article

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