TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maurice, John
AU  - Pearce, Anna Marina.
ED  - World Health Organization
ED  - United Nations Development Programme
ED  - World Bank
TI  - Tropical disease research: a global partnership, eighth programme report : the first ten years, with  highlights of the 1985-86 biennium
SN  - 9241561068
PY  - 1987///
CY  - Geneva
PB  - World Health Organization
KW  - Tropical medicine
KW  - Research
N2  - The book opens with information on the frequency, causes and impediments to control of the six groups of major tropical diseases within TDR's mandate: malaria, schistosomiasis, river blindness and lymphatic filariasis, African sleeping sickness and Chagas' disease, the leishmaniases and leprosy. This is followed by an overview of advances in research that have contributed to the development of vaccines, drugs, diagnostic tests and other disease control tools. An account is given of the diversity of approaches exploited by researchers working within the TDR network, high-lighting their activities during the 1985-1986 biennium. Other chapters review research on the biological control of vectors and discuss the contribution of research on epidemiology and on the social and economic aspects of tropical diseases to the application of disease control tools
UR  - https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/36975
ER  -