Burden of Communicable Disease among the Native and Repatriating Afghans

Syed H. Abidi; Farwa Ali; Farida Shah; Farhat Abbas; Syed Ali

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1002926

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Burden of Communicable Disease among the Native and Repatriating Afghans

Syed H. Abidi,

Affiliation Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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Farwa Ali,

Affiliation Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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Farida Shah,

Affiliation Nursing & Midwifery, Aga Khan University Program, Kabul, Afghanistan
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Farhat Abbas,

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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Syed Ali

* E-mail: syed.ali@aku.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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Burden of Communicable Disease among the Native and Repatriating Afghans

Syed H. Abidi,
Farwa Ali,
Farida Shah,
Farhat Abbas,
Syed Ali

Published: October 25, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1002926

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