Yaws resurgence in Bankim, Cameroon: The relative effectiveness of different means of detection in rural communities.
Yaws is an infectious, debilitating and disfiguring disease of poverty that mainly affects children in rural communities in tropical areas. In Cameroon, mass-treatment campaigns carried out in the 1950s reduced yaws to such low levels that it was presumed the disease was eradicated. In 2010, an epid...
Main Authors: | Alphonse Um Boock, Paschal Kum Awah, Ferdinand Mou, Mark Nichter |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2017-05-01
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Series: | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5436870?pdf=render |
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