Indonesia: An Emerging Market Economy Beset by Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Tan, Melody ^a   Kusriastuti, Rita ^b   Savioli, Lorenzo ^b   Hotez, Peter J ^c,d,e  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; MEBENDAZOLE; PRAZIQUANTEL;

ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; BRUGIA; CHIKUNGUNYA; DENGUE; DISEASE CONTROL; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INDONESIA; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS; LEPROSY; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; NEGLECTED DISEASE; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TRICHURIASIS; TROPICAL DISEASE; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI; YAWS;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HUMANS; INDONESIA; NEGLECTED DISEASES; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

EID: 84895732048     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002449     Document Type: Article

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