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Prevalence, intensity and risk factors of tungiasis in Kilifi County, Kenya: I. Results from a community-based study
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Background Tungiasis is a neglected tropical disease caused by female sand fleas (Tunga penetrans) embedded in the skin. The disease is associated with important morbidity. Tungiasis is endemic along the Coast of Kenya with a prevalence ranging from 11% to 50% in school-age children. Hitherto, studies on epidemiological characteristics of tungiasis in Africa are scanty.
Methods In a cross-sectional study 1,086 individuals from 233 households in eig... Expand abstract
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Journal website
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 10
- Pages:
- e0005925
- Publication date:
- 2017-10-09
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-09-01
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- EISSN:
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1935-2735
- Source identifiers:
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1022264
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- English
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- pubs:1022264
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- 2019-06-25
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- Wiese et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- © 2017 Wiese et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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