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Editorial: Towards a global dengue research agenda

  1. J. Farrar1,
  2. D. Focks2,
  3. D. Gubler3,
  4. R. Barrera4,
  5. M. G. Guzman5,
  6. C. Simmons1,
  7. S. Kalayanarooj6,
  8. L. Lum7,
  9. P. J. McCall8,
  10. L. Lloyd9,
  11. O. Horstick10,
  12. R. Dayal-Drager11,
  13. M. B. Nathan11,
  14. A. Kroeger10,
  15. on behalf of the WHO/TDR Dengue Scientific Working Group1

Article first published online: 5 JUN 2007

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2007.01838.x

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Tropical Medicine & International Health

Tropical Medicine & International Health

Volume 12, Issue 6, pages 695–699, June 2007

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Farrar, J., Focks, D., Gubler, D., Barrera, R., Guzman, M. G., Simmons, C., Kalayanarooj, S., Lum, L., McCall, P. J., Lloyd, L., Horstick, O., Dayal-Drager, R., Nathan, M. B., Kroeger, A. and on behalf of the WHO/TDR Dengue Scientific Working Group (2007), Editorial: Towards a global dengue research agenda. Tropical Medicine & International Health, 12: 695–699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2007.01838.x

Author Information

  1. 1

     Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  2. 2

     Infectious Disease Analysis, Gainesville, GA, USA

  3. 3

     Asia-Pacific Institute of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu, USA

  4. 4

     Dengue Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Juan, Puerto Rico

  5. 5

     Instituto de Medicina Tropical ‘‘Pedro Kouri’’, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba

  6. 6

     Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health, Bangkok, Thailand

  7. 7

     Department of Paediatrics, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  8. 8

     Vector Research Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK

  9. 9

     Consultant, San Diego, CA USA

  10. 10

    UNICEF/UNDP/WORLD BANK/WHO Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, Geneva, Switzerland

  11. 11

    World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

*Corresponding Authors Axel Kroeger and M. Nathan, UNICEF/UNDP/WORLD BANK/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (Axel Kroeger), and Department of Neglected Tropical Diseases, NTD/WHO (Michael Nathan), 1211 Geneva, Switzerland. E-mail: kroegera@who.int and nathanm@who.int

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