PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 2017-01, Vol.11 (1), p.e0005190-e0005190
2017
Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Investments in Research and Surveillance Are Needed to Go Beyond Elimination and Stop Transmission of Leishmania in the Indian Subcontinent
- Ist Teil von
- PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 2017-01, Vol.11 (1), p.e0005190-e0005190
- Ort / Verlag
- United States: Public Library of Science
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2017
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- MEDLINE
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- [...]the approaches which have been used so far and proved successful in bringing high prevalence rates down or close to the elimination target may not be appropriate and sustainable in the consolidation and maintenance phase. [...]we do not know what the one-in-ten-thousand target really means in terms of transmission (we do not know how many new infections a case will generate [the "basic reproduction number" or R0, in epidemiological terms]).
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 1935-2735, 1935-2727eISSN: 1935-2735DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005190Titel-ID: cdi_plos_journals_1869528047
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Antiprotozoal Agents - therapeutic use, Biology and Life Sciences, Biomedical Research - economics, Colleges & universities, Disease control, Disease Reservoirs, Disease transmission, Endemic Diseases, Epidemiology, Funding, Health services, Health surveillance, Humans, India - epidemiology, Leishmania, Leishmaniasis, Leishmaniasis - drug therapy, Leishmaniasis - epidemiology, Leishmaniasis - parasitology, Leishmaniasis - prevention & control, Leishmaniasis Vaccines - immunology, Leishmaniasis, Visceral - drug therapy, Leishmaniasis, Visceral - epidemiology, Leishmaniasis, Visceral - prevention & control, Medicine, Medicine and Health Sciences, Parasitic diseases, People and Places, Policy Platform, Population Surveillance, Prevention, Public health, Surveillance, Tropical diseases