Neglected tropical skin diseases: Their global elimination through integrated mass drug administration?

JAMA Dermatology

Volumn 150, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 481-482

  Hotez, Peter J ^a   Velasquez, Rosannah M ^a   Wolf, John E ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; AZITHROMYCIN; DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE; IVERMECTIN; MEBENDAZOLE; PRAZIQUANTEL;

ASCARIASIS; DISABILITY; DISEASE ELIMINATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; NEGLECTED DISEASE; NOTE; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PATHOGEN LOAD; PREVALENCE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; SCABIES; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN MANIFESTATION; TRACHOMA; TRICHURIASIS; TROPICAL DISEASE; YAWS;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASE ERADICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEGLECTED DISEASES; PULSE THERAPY, DRUG; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; SKIN DISEASES, INFECTIOUS; SKIN DISEASES, PARASITIC; SKIN DISEASES, VIRAL; TROPICAL MEDICINE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84897411278     PISSN: 21686068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamadermatol.2013.8759     Document Type: Note

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