Comprehensive NTD elimination project in Mayuge district, Uganda to effectively eliminate schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths
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Sustaining Progress towards NTD Elimination: An Opportunity to Leverage Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination Programs to Interrupt Transmission of Soil-Transmitted Helminths
1 Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, 2 The DeWorm3 Project, The Natural History Museum of London, London, United Kingdom, 3 Eastern and Southern Africa Centre of International Parasite Control, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya, 4 Neglected Tropical Disease Team, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washingto...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Global Health Science
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2671-6925,2671-6933
DOI: 10.35500/jghs.2019.1.e35