Development of Diagnostics for Chagas Disease: Where Should We Put Our Limited Resources?
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1 Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Geneva, Switzerland, 2 Centre for Tropical Diseases, Hospital Sacro Cuore, Don Calabria, Negrar, Verona, Italy, 3 Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), Geneva, Switzerland, 4 Immunology Section, Instituto de Medicina Tropical, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela, 5 Médecins Sans Frontières Operational Centre Barcelona-Athens (MSF OCBA), Barcelona, Spain, 6 ISGlobal, Barcelona Ctr. Int. Health Res. (CRESIB), Hospital Clı́nic-Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 7 Secció de Parasitologia, Departament de Biologia, Sanitat i Medi Ambient, Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 8 Department of Cardiology, Center of Excellence for Chagas Disease at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, California, United States of America, 9 The Global Chagas Disease Coalition, Barcelona, Spain
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دوره 11 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017