Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis: the Processes Underlying Programme Success

Overview

Journal PLoS Negl Trop Dis

Specialties Infectious Diseases
Tropical Medicine

Date 2014 Dec 16

PMID 25502758

Citations 70

Authors

Kazuyo Ichimori

Jonathan D King

Dirk Engels

Aya Yajima

Alexei Mikhailov

Patrick Lammie

Eric A Ottesen

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