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SUBMITTER: Zofou D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3895778 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Infectious diseases of poverty 20140108 1
Vector-borne protozoan diseases represent a serious public health challenge, especially in the tropics where poverty together with vector-favorable climates are the aggravating factors. Each of the various strategies currently employed to face these scourges is seriously inadequate. Despite enormous efforts, vaccines-which represent the ideal weapon against these parasitic diseases-are yet to be sufficiently developed and implemented. Chemotherapy and vector control are therefore the sole effect ...[more]