Prevalence of Lymphatic Filariasis based on Morbidity and Healthcare-seeking Practices of Patients in a Gram Panchayat of Paschim Burdwan District, West Bengal

Prevalence of Lymphatic Filariasis based on Morbidity and Healthcare-seeking Practices of Patients in a Gram Panchayat of Paschim Burdwan District, West Bengal

Lymphatic filariasis is one of the neglected tropical diseases still present in many areas. A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted during 2019–2020 in the Gourbazar gram panchayat area of Paschim Burdwan District, West Bengal, to find out the prevalence of lymphatic filariasis based o...

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Main Authors:	Indranil Saha, Russoti Das, Ajay K. Mandal, Pinki Darlami, Subhajit Datta, Gautam Ghose, Sanjit Dey
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2025-01-01
Series:	Indian Journal of Community Medicine
Subjects:	health seeking practice hydrocele lymphatic filariasis lymphoedema morbidity prevalence
Online Access:	https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_146_23
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