Strongyloides stercoralis: A Plea for Action
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1 Centre for Tropical Diseases (CTD), Sacro Cuore–Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar, Verona, Italy, 2 Coordinating resources to assess and improve health status of migrants from Latin America (COHEMI) project study group, European Commission, Health Cooperation Work Programme, FP7 (GA-261495), 3 Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 4 Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB, Hospital Clı́nic-Universitat de Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain, 5 Instituto de Investigaciones en Enfermedades Tropicales, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Salta, Argentina, 6 Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, 7 Hospital for Tropical Diseases and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 8 Centre for Community Epidemiology and Tropical Medicine (CECOMET), Esmeraldas, Ecuador, 9 Ivo de Carneri Foundation, Milano, Italy
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