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Male predominance in reported Visceral Leishmaniasis cases: Nature or nurture? A comparison of population-based with health facility-reported data

BACKGROUND: Bangladesh, India, and Nepal aim for the elimination of Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL), a systemic parasitic infectious disease, as a public health problem by 2020. For decades, male patients have comprised the majority of reported VL cases in this region. By comparing this reported VL sex...

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Autores principales: Cloots, Kristien, Burza, Sakib, Malaviya, Paritosh, Hasker, Epco, Kansal, Sangeeta, Mollett, Guy, Chakravarty, Jaya, Roy, Nurpur, Lal, Bibek Kumar, Rijal, Suman, Sundar, Shyam, Boelaert, Marleen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7010295/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31995564
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007995