The CNCDs and the NTDs: Blurring the Lines Dividing Noncommunicable and Communicable Chronic Diseases

Overview

Journal PLoS Negl Trop Dis

Specialties Infectious Diseases
Tropical Medicine

Date 2008 Oct 30

PMID 18958154

Citations 14

Authors

Peter J Hotez

Abdallah S Daar

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