Prevention and Control
Published 1 January 2016
Trilok Chandra Goel, Apul Goel
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Lymphatic filariasis has many disfiguring and debilitating clinical manifestations resulting in much suffering and severe socioeconomic consequences but it is a preventable disease as the cause and mechanism of this problem are now well known.
Abstract
Lymphatic filariasis has many disfiguring and debilitating clinical manifestations resulting in much suffering and severe socioeconomic consequences. But it is a preventable disease as the cause and mechanism of this problem are now well known.
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Immunology and MicrobiologyMedicineEnvironmental Science
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