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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...
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 |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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