A baseline study of rural Bancroftian filariasis in southern India

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 583-586

  Suryanarayana Murty, U ^a   Praveen, B ^a   Satya Kumar, D V R ^a   Sriram, K ^a   Madhusudhan Rao, K ^a   Sai, K S K ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Government of India   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROFILARIA; NEWBORN; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 8444228271     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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