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  1. Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt (IMTAvH), Universidad Cayetano Heredia, Av. Honorio Delgado 430, Urb. Ingeniería, S.M.P, Lima, Peru

    Carol Zavaleta & Eduardo Gotuzzo

  2. Department of Geography, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, H3A 0B9, Canada

    Carol Zavaleta

  3. Universidad Cayetano Heredia, Av. Honorio Delgado 430, Urb. Ingeniería, S.M.P, Lima, Peru

    Kelika Konda

  4. Red de Salud Alto Amazonas, Calle Comercio 114, Yurimaguas-Alto, Amazonas-Loreto, Peru

    Yadira Valderrama

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Carol Zavaleta declares that she is a Peruvian physician and an investigator who currently is doing a PhD at Canada. She has participated in several research studies involving Indigenous People in the Peruvian Amazon.

Eduardo Gotuzzo, Kelika Konda and Yadira Valderrama declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

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Zavaleta, C., Konda, K., Valderrama, Y. et al. Health research: working with Indigenous People in Peru. J Community Genet 7, 173–174 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12687-016-0264-6

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