Closing in on 'perhaps the most dreadful of the remaining plagues': An independent view of the multidisciplinary alliance to optimize schistosomiasis control in Africa

Acta Tropica

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 179-181

  Bergquist, Robert ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Africa; Control; Elimination; Research network; Schistosomiasis

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY TARTRATE; COPPER SULFATE; PRAZIQUANTEL;

CHEMOTHERAPY; OPTIMIZATION; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; RESEARCH;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE ELIMINATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POINT OF CARE TESTING; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; VECTOR CONTROL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; WORM EXPULSION;

AFRICA;

AFRICA; CONTROL; ELIMINATION; RESEARCH NETWORK; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

AFRICA; CAPACITY BUILDING; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMANS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

EID: 84885484246     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2013.08.016     Document Type: Article

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