Raising the Political Profile of the Neglected Zoonotic Diseases: Three Complementary European Commission-Funded Projects to Streamline Research, Build Capacity and Advocate for Control
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1 Division of Pathway Medicine and Centre for Infectious Diseases, School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2 Agriculture and Veterinary Information and Analysis (Avia-GIS), Zoersel, Belgium, 3 Instituto de Salud Tropical y Depto Microbiología y Parasitología, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, 4 Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, 5 Centre of African Studies, School of Social and Political Science, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 6 Section for Parasitology and Aquatic Diseases, Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 7 School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu‐Natal, Durban, South Africa
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