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Together in the fight against neglected public health problems: worldwide network cooperation on waterborne diseases and emerging parasitic diseases

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A symposium held in Guangzhou, China, aimed to become starting point of an international cooperation in the fight against waterborne diseases, which obtain more and more importance in times of global warming and globalization.

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Acknowledgments

The symposium was funded by the following foundations: The Programme of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities (B12003), National Natural Science Foundation of China (81410308028, 81261160324), and 973 Program (2010CB530004).

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  1. Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Control of Tropical Diseases, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong, China

    Xiaoying Wu

  2. Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

    Xiaoying Wu, Langui Song, Jinyi Liang, Shiqi Luo & Zhongdao Wu

  3. Department of Parasitology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, 74 Zhongshan 2nd Road, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China

    Langui Song, Jinyi Liang, Shiqi Luo & Zhongdao Wu

  4. Department of Parasitology, Heinrich Heine University, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Heinz Mehlhorn

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Wu, X., Song, L., Liang, J. et al. Together in the fight against neglected public health problems: worldwide network cooperation on waterborne diseases and emerging parasitic diseases. Parasitol Res 114, 1989–1991 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-015-4395-1

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