About the Authors
- The Working Group on Research Priorities for Development of Leishmaniasis Vaccines
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¶Membership of the Working Group on Research Priorities for Development of Leishmaniasis Vaccinesis is provided in the Acknowledgments.
- Carlos Henrique Nery Costa
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Affiliation Natan Portella Institute for Tropical Diseases, Federal University of Piauí, Teresina, Brazil
- Nathan C. Peters
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Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Sandra Regina Maruyama
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Affiliation Laboratory of Immunoparasitology, Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
- Eldo Cardoso de Brito Jr.
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Affiliation Natan Portella Institute for Tropical Diseases, Federal University of Piauí, Teresina, Brazil
- Isabel Kinney Ferreira de Miranda Santos
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* E-mail: imsantos@fmrp.usp.br
Affiliations Laboratory of Immunoparasitology, Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, National Center for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brazilian Enterprise for Agricultural Research, Brasília, Brazil
Competing Interests
The funders of the Symposium and Working Group that resulted in this policy platform were the Brazilian National Research Council (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico- CNPq), the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology (Ministério de Ciência e Tecnologia - MCT), The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz - FIOCRUZ) and the Department of Science and Technology of the Brazilian Ministry of Health (Departamento de Ciência e Tecnologia do Ministério da Saúde - DECIT-MS). The funders of the International Symposium for Leishmanisis Vaccines had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.