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What It Means to Be Guinea Worm Free: An Insider’s Account from Ghana’s Northern Region

Despite several periods of stagnating guinea worm disease (GWD) incidence in Ghana during its national eradication campaign in the 1990s and early 2000s, the last reported case of GWD was in May 2010. In July 2011, Ghana celebrated the interruption of guinea worm (GW) transmission. Although it has b...

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Autores principales: Weiss, Adam J., Vestergaard Frandsen, Torben, Ruiz-Tiben, Ernesto, Hopkins, Donald R., Aseidu-Bekoe, Franklin, Agyemang, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5953361/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29557333
http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.17-0558