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Acute Lymphatic Filariasis Infection in United States Armed Forces Personnel Deployed to the Pacific Area of Operations during World War II Provides Important Lessons for Today

The deployment of United States (US) Armed Forces personnel into the central Pacific islands of Samoa and Tonga, which is highly-endemic for lymphatic filariasis (LF), resulted in thousands of cases of the acute form of this disease and greatly reduced their ability to carry out their mission. The m...

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Autores principales:	Melrose, Wayne D., Leggat, Peter A.
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	MDPI 2020
Materias:	Perspective
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7345701/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32316470 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed5020063

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