Tsetse Control and the Elimination of Gambian Sleeping Sickness
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Tsetse Control and the Elimination of Gambian Sleeping Sickness
1 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom, 2 IRED, B. P. 433, N'Djaména, Chad, 3 IRD, UMR 177 IRD-CIRAD INTERTRYP, PNLTHA-Ministère de la Santé, Conakry, Republique de Guinee, 4 PNLTHA, Ministère de la Santé, Conakry, Republique de Guinee, 5 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, 6 Institut Pierre Richet / Institut ...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1935-2735
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004437