Ten Global "Hotspots" for the Neglected Tropical Diseases

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Hotez, Peter J ^a,b,c  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CYSTICERCOSIS; DENGUE; ECONOMIC RECESSION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFECTION RATE; LEPROSY; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCABIES; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TRACHOMA; TRICHURIASIS; TROPICAL DISEASE; HEALTH; NEGLECTED DISEASE; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; NEGLECTED DISEASES; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

EID: 84901754854     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002496     Document Type: Article

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