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Yaws resurgence in Bankim, Cameroon: The relative effectiveness of different means of detection in rural communities

BACKGROUND: Yaws is an infectious, debilitating and disfiguring disease of poverty that mainly affects children in rural communities in tropical areas. In Cameroon, mass-treatment campaigns carried out in the 1950s reduced yaws to such low levels that it was presumed the disease was eradicated. In 2...

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Autores principales: Boock, Alphonse Um, Awah, Paschal Kum, Mou, Ferdinand, Nichter, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5436870/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28481900
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005557