The evolving schistosomiasis agenda 2007-2017—Why we are moving beyond morbidity control toward elimination of transmission
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The evolving schistosomiasis agenda 2007-2017—Why we are moving beyond morbidity control toward elimination of transmission
Over the past decade at PLOS NTD, our thinking about schistosomiasis control has changed dramatically. Before going further in this article, though, it is especially important for me, as an editor, to ask everyone in the NTD world to be much more precise now about their terminology when referring to ‘schistosomiasis control’. One can no longer talk about schistosomiasis and its control in loose...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1935-2735
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005517