Opisthorchiasis: An Overlooked Danger
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1 Siberian State Medical University, Tomsk, Russian Federation, 2 Tropical Disease Research Laboratory, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand, 3 Laboratory of Molecular Mechanisms of Pathological Processes, Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation, 4 Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, 5 University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 6 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, 7 Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, and Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, GeorgeWashington University, Washington, D.C., United States of America, 8 Center for Proteomics and Metabolomics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands, 9 Department of Chemistry, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russian Federation, 10 Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, 11 Academic Division of Thoracic Surgery, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, United Kingdom, 12 Population Genetics Laboratory, Research Institute for Medical Genetics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Tomsk, Russian Federation, 13 Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation, 14 ReMedys Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland, 15 External R&D Innovation, Pfizer Russia, Moscow, Russian Federation, 16 Department of Parasitology and Leiden Parasite Immunology Group, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
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