Slaying little dragons: the impact of the Guinea Worm Eradication Program on dracunculiasis disability averted from 1990 to 2016

Background: The objective of this study was to document the worldwide decline of dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease, GWD) burden, expressed as disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), from 1990 to 2016, as estimated in the Global Burden of Disease study 2016 (GBD 2016). While the annual number of ca...

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Autores principales: Cromwell, Elizabeth A., Roy, Sharon, Sankara, Dieudonne P., Weiss, Adam, Stanaway, Jeffrey, Goldberg, Ellen, Pigott, David M., Larson, Heidi, Vollset, Stein Emil, Krohn, Kristopher, Foreman, Kyle, Hotez, Peter, Bhutta, Zulfiqar, Bekele, Bayu Begashaw, Edessa, Dumessa, Kassembaum, Nicholas, Mokdad, Ali, Murray, Christopher J. L., Hay, Simon I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: F1000 Research Limited 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6139381/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30234196
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/gatesopenres.12827.1

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