Why is leptospirosis hard to avoid for the impoverished? Deconstructing leptospirosis transmission risk and the drivers of knowledge, attitudes, and practices in a disadvantaged community in Salvador, Brazil.
Several studies have identified socioeconomic and environmental risk factors for infectious disease, but the relationship between these and knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP), and more importantly their web of effects on individual infection risk, have not previously been evaluated. We conduc...
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| Main Authors: | Fabiana Almerinda G Palma, Federico Costa, Ricardo Lustosa, Hammed O Mogaji, Daiana Santos de Oliveira, Fábio Neves Souza, Mitermayer G Reis, Albert I Ko, Michael Begon, Hussein Khalil |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2022-01-01
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| Series: | PLOS Global Public Health |
| Online Access: | https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0000408&type=printable |
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