Identifying correlates of Guinea worm (Dracunculus medinensis) infection in domestic dog populations.
Few human infectious diseases have been driven as close to eradication as dracunculiasis, caused by the Guinea worm parasite (Dracunculus medinensis). The number of human cases of Guinea worm decreased from an estimated 3.5 million in 1986 to mere hundreds by the 2010s. In Chad, domestic dogs were d...
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Main Authors: | Robert L Richards (Author), Christopher A Cleveland (Author), Richard J Hall (Author), Philip Tchindebet Ouakou (Author), Andrew W Park (Author), Ernesto Ruiz-Tiben (Author), Adam Weiss (Author), Michael J Yabsley (Author), Vanessa O Ezenwa (Author) |
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2020-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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