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Comment
. 2011 Apr 26;5(4):e1136.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001136.

Chagas disease has now gone global

Herbert B Tanowitz  1 , Louis M Weiss, Susan P Montgomery
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Chagas disease has now gone global

Herbert B Tanowitz et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. .
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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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