Between-Country Inequalities in the Neglected Tropical Disease Burden in 1990 and 2010, with Projections for 2020

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Stolk, Wilma A ^a   Kulik, Margarete C ^a,b   le Rutte, Epke A ^a   Jacobson, Julie ^c   Richardus, Jan Hendrik ^a   de Vlas, Sake J ^a   Houweling, Tanja A J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISABILITY; DISEASE BURDEN; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HELMINTHIASIS; INCOME; INFECTION CONTROL; LEPROSY; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; NEGLECTED DISEASE; ONCHOCERCIASIS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TRACHOMA; TROPICAL DISEASE; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; NEGLECTED DISEASES; TIME FACTOR; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

COST OF ILLNESS; HUMANS; INCOME; NEGLECTED DISEASES; TIME FACTORS; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

EID: 84971642804     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004560     Document Type: Article

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