Global Christianity and the Control of Its Neglected Tropical Diseases
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1 National School of Tropical Medicine and Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 2 Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 3 Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America, 4 James A Baker IIII Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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