Renewed transmission of dracunculiasis --- Chad, 2010

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 60, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 744-748

  Djidina, Mathias R ^a   Guialoungou, Hassan ^b   Dono, Baba Brahim ^b   Ngarhor, Neloumta ^b   Padjaïna, Miyara ^b   Biswas, Gautam ^c   Sankara, Dieudonné ^c   Maiga, Alouseini ^c   Djimrassengar, Honoré ^c   Roy, Sharon L ^d   Bcheraoui, Charbel El ^e   Walldorf, Jenny A ^e  

^a Div of Communicable and Non Communicable Disease Prevention   (United States)

^b Chad Ministry of Public Health   (United States)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^e CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHAD; COPEPOD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRACUNCULIASIS; DRACUNCULUS; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYGIENE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIGRATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

ANIMALS; CHAD; COPEPODA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRACUNCULIASIS; DRACUNCULUS NEMATODE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYGIENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 79959312811     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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