Feasibility of eliminating visceral leishmaniasis from the Indian subcontinent: explorations with a set of deterministic age-structured transmission models

BACKGROUND: Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a neglected tropical disease transmitted by sandflies. On the Indian subcontinent (ISC), VL is targeted for elimination as a public health problem by 2017. In the context of VL, the elimination target is defined as an annual VL incidence of <1 per 10,000...

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Autores principales: Le Rutte, Epke A., Coffeng, Luc E., Bontje, Daniel M., Hasker, Epco C., Ruiz Postigo, José A., Argaw, Daniel, Boelaert, Marleen C., De Vlas, Sake J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4717541/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26787302
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-016-1292-0

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