Challenges in the control of Human African Trypanosomiasis in the Mpika district of Zambia

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Mwanakasale, Victor ^a,c   Songolo, Peter ^b   Daka, Victor ^a  

^a TROPICAL DISEASES RESEARCH CENTRE   (Zambia)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c Department of Environmental and Plant Sciences   (Zambia)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Elimination; Endemic; Human African Trypanosomiasis; Management; Referral system

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; ZAMBIA;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; ZAMBIA;

EID: 84876970171     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-6-180     Document Type: Article

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