Correction: Dengue Research Funded by the European Commission-Scientific Strategies of Three European Dengue Research Consortia
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In the Acknowledgments section, the affiliation of Xavier Rodó is listed incorrectly. The correct affiliation is: ICREA and Institut Català de Ciències del Clima. Copyright: ß 2014 The PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Staff. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Dengue Research Funded by the European Commission-Scientific Strategies of Three European Dengue Research Consortia
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