Has the NTD Community Neglected Evidence-Based Policy? PLOS NTDs 2013 Expert Commentary of the Viewpoint by Nagpal S, Sinclair D, Garner P

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Montresor, Antonio ^a   Gabrielli, Albis F ^a   Engels, Dirk ^a   Daumerie, Denis ^a   Savioli, Lorenzo ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; AZITHROMYCIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IVERMECTIN; MEBENDAZOLE; PRAZIQUANTEL;

ARTICLE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; NEGLECTED DISEASE; ONCHOCERCIASIS; POLICY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TROPICAL DISEASE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PARASITOSIS; TRACHOMA; TROPICAL MEDICINE; NEGLECTED DISEASES; PARASITIC DISEASES; PROCEDURES;

HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; NEGLECTED DISEASES; PARASITIC DISEASES; TRACHOMA; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

EID: 84880815923     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002299     Document Type: Article

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