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Visceral Leishmaniasis: New Health Tools Are Needed

Half a million new cases of visceral leishmaniasis occur each year, and 10% of these are fatal. New tools are urgently needed for mapping, diagnosing, and treating the disease.

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Autores principales: Hailu, Asrat, Mudawi Musa, Ahmed, Royce, Catherine, Wasunna, Monique
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1181879/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16033309
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020211
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author Hailu, Asrat
Mudawi Musa, Ahmed
Royce, Catherine
Wasunna, Monique
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spelling pubmed-11818792005-08-02 Visceral Leishmaniasis: New Health Tools Are Needed Hailu, Asrat Mudawi Musa, Ahmed Royce, Catherine Wasunna, Monique PLoS Med Neglected Diseases Half a million new cases of visceral leishmaniasis occur each year, and 10% of these are fatal. New tools are urgently needed for mapping, diagnosing, and treating the disease. Public Library of Science 2005-07 2005-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC1181879/ /pubmed/16033309 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020211 Text en Copyright: © 2005 Hailu et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
spellingShingle Neglected Diseases
Hailu, Asrat
Mudawi Musa, Ahmed
Royce, Catherine
Wasunna, Monique
Visceral Leishmaniasis: New Health Tools Are Needed
title Visceral Leishmaniasis: New Health Tools Are Needed
title_full Visceral Leishmaniasis: New Health Tools Are Needed
title_fullStr Visceral Leishmaniasis: New Health Tools Are Needed
title_full_unstemmed Visceral Leishmaniasis: New Health Tools Are Needed
title_short Visceral Leishmaniasis: New Health Tools Are Needed
title_sort visceral leishmaniasis: new health tools are needed
topic Neglected Diseases
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1181879/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16033309
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020211
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