A Multiscale Model for the World’s First Parasitic Disease Targeted for Eradication: Guinea Worm Disease
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A Multiscale Model for the World's First Parasitic Disease Targeted for Eradication: Guinea Worm Disease
Guinea worm disease (GWD) is both a neglected tropical disease and an environmentally driven infectious disease. Environmentally driven infectious diseases remain one of the biggest health threats for human welfare in developing countries and the threat is increased by the looming danger of climate change. In this paper we present a multiscale model of GWD that integrates the within-host scale ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1748-670X,1748-6718
DOI: 10.1155/2017/1473287