Landscape of neglected tropical diseases: Getting it right

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 469-470

  Van Lieshout, Lisette ^a   Yazdanbakhsh, Maria ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FECES ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LETTER; MALARIA; MICROSCOPY; NEGLECTED DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TROPICAL DISEASE;

ANIMALS; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; SOIL;

EID: 84878447103     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(13)70094-X     Document Type: Letter

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