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Poor Nutritional Status Among Human Filarial Lymphedema Patients in Ghana: A Cross-Sectional Study

2021-02-17

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a neglected tropical disease with several infection phenotypes. In addition to mass drug administration, host immune response contributes to microfilariae clearance. An important influence of immunity, nutritional status, remains to be evaluated among filarial lymphedema patients. This study sought to assess the nutritional status of LF patients...

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Literature Corpus work: dd246928-c98e-534a-a6bd-108b553869c3
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-200261/v1

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