Economic impact of onchocerciasis control through the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control: an overview.

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• Publication year

  1998

• Venue

  Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

• Publication date

  1998-04-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Economics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1080/00034983.1998.11813363PMID 9861265
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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