Neglected Tropical Diseases among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): Overview and Update

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Hotez, Peter J ^a,b,c   Bottazzi, Maria Elena ^a,b   Strych, Ulrich ^a   Chang, Li Yen ^d   Lim, Yvonne A L ^d   Goodenow, Maureen M ^e   AbuBakar, Sazaly ^d  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANCYLOSTOMIASIS; BURULI ULCER; CHAGAS DISEASE; DENGUE; DRACUNCULIASIS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTION; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; HAND FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HUMAN; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS; LEPROSY; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MELIOIDOSIS; NEMATODE; NIPAH VIRUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI MALARIA; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; RABIES; REVIEW; RICKETTSIOSIS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TRACHOMA; TREMATODIASIS; TRICHURIASIS; TROPICAL DISEASE; VIRUS INFECTION; YAWS; ANIMAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; NEGLECTED DISEASES; PROCEDURES; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

ANIMALS; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; HUMANS; NEGLECTED DISEASES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

EID: 84929462546     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003575     Document Type: Review

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