From river blindness control to elimination: bridge over troubled water
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Title
From river blindness control to elimination: bridge over troubled water
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Keywords
Onchocerciasis, Control, Elimination, Monitoring & evaluation, Community drug distributors, Epilepsy, Prevalence, Incidence
Journal
Infectious Diseases of Poverty
Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages -
Publisher
Springer Nature
Online
2018-04-04
DOI
10.1186/s40249-018-0406-7
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