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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...
Autores principales: | Boock, Alphonse Um, Awah, Paschal Kum, Mou, Ferdinand, Nichter, Mark |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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