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Bayesian Geostatistical Modeling of Leishmaniasis Incidence in Brazil
Background Leishmaniasis is endemic in 98 countries with an estimated 350 million people at risk and approximately 2 million cases annually. Brazil is one of the most severely... -
Epidemiologic Models, Key Logs, and Realizing the Promise of WHA 54.19
During the late 1800s, when trees were cut by handsaw and the logs floated down river by the hundreds to be milled, they occasionally jammed. Skilled lumberjacks could often... -
A Research Agenda for Helminth Diseases of Humans: Towards Control and Elimin...
Human helminthiases are of considerable public health importance in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The acknowledgement of the disease burden due to helminth... -
An interfaith dialogue on the neglected tropical diseases.
Most of the world's neglected tropical diseases occur among populations that adhere to Islam, Catholicism, or Hinduism, an observation that affords opportunities to establish a...
