Burden of podoconiosis in poor rural communities in Gulliso Woreda, West Ethiopia

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Alemu, Getahun ^a   Ayele, Fasil Tekola ^b   Daniel, Takele ^c   Ahrens, Christel ^d   Davey, Gail ^e  

^a SOS Children's Villages International   (Ethiopia)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Addis Ababa Health Bureau   (Ethiopia)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e BRIGHTON AND SUSSEX MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOLYMPHANGITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; INGUINAL REGION; LEG SWELLING; LYMPHANGITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PODOCONIOSIS; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; WORK DISABILITY; INCIDENCE; LEG; LYMPHEDEMA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEG; LYMPHANGITIS; LYMPHEDEMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959821098     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001184     Document Type: Article

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