Waking up to the Naegleria threat: urgent measures needed to protect public health in Pakistan-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Waking up to the Naegleria threat: urgent measures needed to protect public health in Pakistan

Published:2024-01-10 Issue:4 Volume:22 Page:129-130
ISSN:1478-7210
Container-title:Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy
language:en
Short-container-title:Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy

Author:

Ata Ifrah¹,Riaz Nabeel²^ORCID,Ata Fariah³,Farooq Umer⁴,Mallhi Tauqeer Hussain⁵

Affiliation:

1. Hamdard Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hamdard University Islamabad Campus Islamabad, Pakistan

2. Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Center, Lahore & Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

3. Department of Optometry, The University of Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan

4. Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

5. Department of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Jouf University, Sakaka, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Funder

No funding

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Link

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14787210.2024.2304055

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