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ASPEK EPIDEMIOLOGI DALAM PENANGGULANGAN FILARIASIS DI INDONESIA

open access: yesJurnal Vektor Penyakit, 2012
In Indonesia three parasites of the order Filarioidea are known to affect man: Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi and Brugia timori. The vectors of filariasis in Indonesia include a wide variety of mosquitoes  from  the genera  Culex, Mansonia, Aedes ...
Made Agus Nurjana
doaj   +1 more source

Integrated morbidity management for lymphatic filariasis and podoconiosis, Ethiopia

open access: yesBulletin of the World Health Organization, 2017
Problem Lymphatic filariasis and podoconiosis are the major causes of tropical lymphoedema in Ethiopia. The diseases require a similar provision of care, but until recently the Ethiopian health system did not integrate the morbidity management.
Kebede Deribe   +12 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The burden of mental health in lymphatic filariasis

open access: yesInfectious Diseases of Poverty, 2015
BackgroundNeglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) afflict around one billion individuals in the poorest parts of the world with many more at risk. Lymphatic filariasis is one of the most prevalent of the infections and causes significant morbidity in those ...

semanticscholar   +1 more source

Chyluria: A rare initial manifestation of disseminated tuberculosis

open access: yesInternational Journal of Mycobacteriology, 2018
Chyluria is described as passage of chyle in the urine. It results from the formation of lymphaticorenal fistulae due to various etiologies. The most common implicated cause is filariasis especially in endemic areas.
Nishanth Dev, Rahul Kumar
doaj   +1 more source

The global distribution of lymphatic filariasis, 2000–18: a geospatial analysis

open access: yesLancet Global Health, 2020
A. Deshpande   +499 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Water resources development: engineering the future of global health [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This repository item contains a single issue of Issues in Brief, a series of policy briefs that began publishing in 2008 by the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.Pardee 2012 Summer Graduate Fellow Diana
Gergel, Diana
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Investment Success in Public Health: An Analysis of the Cost-Effectiveness and Cost-Benefit of the Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis

open access: yesClinical Infectious Diseases, 2016
Summary We found that both the preventive chemotherapy and hydrocele surgery provided under the Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF) are cost-effective and offer a very good investment in public health.
H. Turner   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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