Neglected Tropical Disease Control and Elimination: Is Human Displacement an Achilles Heel?
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Neglected Tropical Disease Control and Elimination: Is Human Displacement an Achilles Heel?
1 Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America, 2 Department of Medicine Division of Infectious Disease, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, 3 Global Migration and Quarantine, US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of A...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1935-2735
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003535