Eliminating Visceral Leishmaniasis in South Asia: the Road Ahead

Overview

Journal BMJ

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2019 Jan 24

PMID 30670453

Citations 78

Authors

Suman Rijal

Shyam Sundar

Dinesh Mondal

Pradeep Das

Jorge Alvar

Marleen Boelaert

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