Clinical Research in Neglected Tropical Diseases: The Challenge of Implementing Good Clinical (Laboratory) Practices
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1 Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium, 2 Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 3 Médecins Sans Frontières United Kingdom, London, United Kingdom, 4 Centre de Recherche Clinique, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland, 5 Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 6 Department of Internal Medicine, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal, 7 Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, 8 Department of Tropical Medicine, University of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, 9 Institut National de Recherche en Santé Publique, Bamako, Mali, 10 University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan, 11 Sihanouk Hospital Center of Hope, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 12 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 13 Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom, 14 Division of Tropical and Humanitarian Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland, 15 Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium
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