Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemic in Central America: Urgent Public Health Action Is Needed amid Causal Uncertainty

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Ordunez, Pedro ^a   Martinez, Ramón ^a   Reveiz, Ludovic ^a   Chapman, Evelina ^a   Saenz, Carla ^a   Soares da Silva, Agnes ^a   Becerra, Francisco ^a  

^a PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

FERTILIZER;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DENGUE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; HEAVY METAL POISONING; HUMAN; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 84927780033     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003019     Document Type: Article

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