Sleeping sickness elimination in sight: Time to celebrate and reflect, but not relax

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Aksoy, Serap ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFLORNITHINE; FEXINIDAZOLE; NIFURTIMOX;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; BUDGET; CENTRIFUGATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG COST; DRUG INDUSTRY; EDITORIAL; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION; NEGLECTED DISEASE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; VECTOR CONTROL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; HUMANS; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

EID: 79952483670     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001008     Document Type: Editorial

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