Yaws resurgence in Bankim, Cameroon: The relative effectiveness of different means of detection in rural communities.

• Main Authors: Alphonse Um Boock (Author), Paschal Kum Awah (Author), Ferdinand Mou (Author), Mark Nichter (Author)
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• 出版: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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Yaws is an infectious, debilitating and disfiguring disease of poverty that mainly affects children in rural communities in tropical areas. In Cameroon, mass-treatment campaigns carried out in the 1950s reduced yaws to such low levels that it was presumed the disease was eradicated. In 2010, an epid...