Moving from Rabies Research to Rabies Control: Lessons from India

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Kakkar, Manish ^a   Venkataramanan, Vidya ^a   Krishnan, Sampath ^b   Chauhan, Ritu Singh ^b   Abbas, Syed Shahid ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INDIA; INFECTION CONTROL; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLICATION; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; RESEARCH PRIORITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INDIA; NEGLECTED DISEASES; PUBLICATIONS; RABIES; RABIES VACCINES; RABIES VIRUS; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84865956980     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001748     Document Type: Article

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