Toward an open-access global database for mapping, control, and surveillance of neglected tropical diseases

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Hürlimann, Eveline ^a,b   Schur, Nadine ^a,b   Boutsika, Konstantina ^a,b   Stensgaard, Anna Sofie ^c,d   de Himpsl, Maiti Laserna ^a,b   Ziegelbauer, Kathrin ^a,b   Laizer, Nassor ^a,b,e   Camenzind, Lukas ^a,b   Pasquale, Aurelio ^a,b   Ekpo, Uwem F ^f   Simoonga, Christopher ^g,h   Mushinge, Gabriel ^g   Saarnak, Christopher F L ^d   Utzinger, Jürg ^a,b   Kristensen, Thomas K ^d   Vounatsou, Penelope ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d DANISH BILHARZIASIS LABORATORY   (Denmark)

^e OPEN UNIVERSITY OF TANZANIA   (Tanzania)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Nigeria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^h MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Zambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; LEISHMANIASIS; NEGLECTED DISEASE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA BOVIS; SCHISTOSOMA INTERCALATUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMA MATTHEEI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; SCHOOL CHILD; SEQUENCE DATABASE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DOMINANCE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TROPICAL DISEASE; URINALYSIS; URINE SEDIMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DATA BASE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH; INFANT; INTERNET; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERNET; MIDDLE AGED; NEGLECTED DISEASES; PREVALENCE; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84855256596     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001404     Document Type: Article

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