Monitoring the progress towards the elimination of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Simarro, Pere P ^a   Cecchi, Giuliano ^b   Franco, José R ^a   Paone, Massimo ^c   Diarra, Abdoulaye ^a   Priotto, Gerardo ^a   Mattioli, Raffaele C ^c   Jannin, Jean G ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Ethiopia)

^c FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ARTICLE; DISEASE ELIMINATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; TREND STUDY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ERADICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ERADICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

EID: 84934764381     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003785     Document Type: Article

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