Tsetse Control and the Elimination of Gambian Sleeping Sickness
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1 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom, 2 IRED, B. P. 433, N'Djaména, Chad, 3 IRD, UMR 177 IRD-CIRAD INTERTRYP, PNLTHA-Ministère de la Santé, Conakry, Republique de Guinee, 4 PNLTHA, Ministère de la Santé, Conakry, Republique de Guinee, 5 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, 6 Institut Pierre Richet / Institut National de Santé Publique, BP V 47 Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 7 National Human African Trypanosomiasis Control Program, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 8 PNLTHA, Ministry of Health, N'Djaména, Chad, 9 CIRDES URBIO, 01 BP 454, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, 10 Department of Biomolecular and Biolaboratory Sciences, School of Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, 11 IRD, UMR 177 IRD-CIRAD INTERTRYP, CIRDES 01 BP 454, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
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دوره 10 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016