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Editorial
. 2016 Jun 14;1(1):1.
doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed1010001.

Welcome to Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease-A New Era in Open Access Publication

Peter A Leggat  1 , John Frean  2
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Editorial

Welcome to Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease-A New Era in Open Access Publication

Peter A Leggat et al. Trop Med Infect Dis. .

Abstract

Historically, tropical medicine emerged from a multidisciplinary background as a result of progress in the areas of public health and hygiene, travel and exploration, biology and evolution, and the germ theory of disease [1].[...].

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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