Cystic Echinococcosis: Chronic, Complex, and Still Neglected

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. The Lima workshop was partially funded by the Peruvian National Institute of Health and FIC-NIH training grant TW001140 (to HG). Thomas Junghanss received research funds from NIAID-NIH (grant R34AI091427). HG is now a Wellcome Trust International Senior Research Fellow. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

• Publication date

  2011-07-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001146PMID 21814584PMCID 3144181
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