Human African Trypanosomiasis Research Gets a Boost: Unraveling the Tsetse Genome
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1 Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, 2 The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, United Kingdom, 3 South African National Bioinformatics Institute, MRC Bioinformatics Unit, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa, 4 Vector Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 5 Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics Unit, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya, 6 Vector, Environment and Society Unit, Tropical Diseases Research (TDR), World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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دوره 8 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014