Human African trypanosomiasis research gets a boost: unraveling the tsetse genome

Affiliations

¹ Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America.
² The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, United Kingdom.
³ South African National Bioinformatics Institute, MRC Bioinformatics Unit, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa.
⁴ Vector Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
⁵ Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics Unit, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya.
⁶ Vector, Environment and Society Unit, Tropical Diseases Research (TDR), World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

Editorial

Serap Aksoy et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2014.

. 2014 Apr 24;8(4):e2624.

doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002624. eCollection 2014 Apr.

¹ Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America.
² The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, United Kingdom.
³ South African National Bioinformatics Institute, MRC Bioinformatics Unit, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa.
⁴ Vector Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
⁵ Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics Unit, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya.
⁶ Vector, Environment and Society Unit, Tropical Diseases Research (TDR), World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. SA is EIC of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.

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