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. 2021 May 7:35:100871.
doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100871. eCollection 2021 May.

Aspirin in tuberculous meningitis

Angharad G Davis  1   2   3 , Robert J Wilkinson  1   2   3   4
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Aspirin in tuberculous meningitis

Angharad G Davis et al. EClinicalMedicine. .
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Conflict of interest statement

The authors are funded in part by Wellcome [104803, 211159, 230135]. For the purpose of Open Access, the authors have applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission. The authors are also supported by the Francis Crick Institute which receives its core funding from Cancer Research UK (FC0010218), the UK Medical Research Council (FC00101218), and Wellcome (FC00101218). The authors also receive support from EDCTP (RIA2017T-2019 109237), NIH (R01AI145436) and Meningitis Now. The authors declare no conflict of interests.

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