Neglected tropical diseases in the People's Republic of China: progress towards elimination

• Main Authors: Men-Bao Qian (Author), Jin Chen (Author), Robert Bergquist (Author), Zhong-Jie Li (Author), Shi-Zhu Li (Author), Ning Xiao (Author), Jürg Utzinger (Author), Xiao-Nong Zhou (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, considerable progress has been made in the control and elimination of the country's initial set of 11 neglected tropical diseases. Indeed, elimination as a public health problem has been declared for lymphatic filariasi...