Break Out: Urogenital Schistosomiasis and Schistosoma haematobium Infection in the Post-Genomic Era

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Brindley, Paul J ^a   Hotez, Peter J ^b,c  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFECTION CONTROL; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PREVALENCE; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; UROGENITAL TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 84875968823     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001961     Document Type: Editorial

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