Bibliometric assessment of the contributions of literature on chagas disease in Latin America and the caribbean

Recent Patents on Anti-Infective Drug Discovery

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 202-208

  Delgado Osorio, Nathalia ^a   Vera Polanía, Felipe ^a   López Isaza, Andrés F ^a   Martínez Pulgarin, Dayron F ^a   Murillo Abadia, Jonathan ^a   Muñoz Urbano, Marcela ^a   Cardona Ospina, Jaime A ^a   Bello, Ricardo ^b,c   Lagos Grisales, Guillermo J ^a   Villegas Rojas, Soraya ^a   Rodríguez Morales, Alfonso J ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA DE PEREIRA   (Colombia)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^d Working Group on Zoonoses   (United Kingdom)

^e Asociación Colombiana de Infectología   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Chagas disease; Epidemiology; Latin America

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; BRAZIL; CARIBBEAN; CHAGAS DISEASE; COLOMBIA; HUMAN; MEDLINE; MEXICO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCISEARCH; SCOPUS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA;

EID: 84930512497     PISSN: 1574891X     EISSN: 22124071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1574891X10666150410154322     Document Type: Article

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