Canada's Neglected Tropical Disease Research Network: Who's in the Core-Who's on the Periphery?

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Phillips, Kaye ^a   Kohler, Jillian Clare ^a   Pennefather, Peter ^a   Thorsteinsdottir, Halla ^a   Wong, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHAGAS DISEASE; ELEPHANTIASIS; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; LEPROSY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEGLECTED DISEASE; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PUBLICATION; RATING SCALE; TRACHOMA; TRICHURIASIS; TROPICAL DISEASE;

ACADEMIES AND INSTITUTES; BIBLIOMETRICS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CANADA; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; HUMANS; NEGLECTED DISEASES; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

EID: 84892687824     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002568     Document Type: Article

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