The Costs of Preventing and Treating Chagas Disease in Colombia

Marianela Castillo-Riquelme; Felipe Guhl; Brenda Turriago; Nestor Pinto; Fernando Rosas; Mónica Flórez Martínez; Julia Fox-Rushby; Clive Davies; Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000336

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The Costs of Preventing and Treating Chagas Disease in Colombia

Marianela Castillo-Riquelme ,

* E-mail: marianelacastillo@hotmail.com

Current address: Health Economic Unit, Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Affiliation Health Economic and Financing Programme, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Felipe Guhl,

Affiliation Centro de Investigaciones en Microbiología y Parasitología Tropical (CIMPAT), Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
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Brenda Turriago,

Affiliation Centro de Investigaciones en Microbiología y Parasitología Tropical (CIMPAT), Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
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Nestor Pinto,

Affiliation Centro de Investigaciones en Microbiología y Parasitología Tropical (CIMPAT), Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
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Fernando Rosas,

Affiliation Electrophysiology, Fundación Clínica Shaio, Bogotá, Colombia
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Mónica Flórez Martínez,

Affiliation Centro de Investigaciones en Enfermedades Tropicales-CINTROP, Universidad Industrial de Santander-UIS, Guatiguará, Piedecuesta, Santander, Colombia
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Julia Fox-Rushby,

Affiliation Health Economics Research Group, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, United Kingdom
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Clive Davies,

Affiliation Disease Control and Vector Biology Unit, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum

Affiliation Disease Control and Vector Biology Unit, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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The Costs of Preventing and Treating Chagas Disease in Colombia

Marianela Castillo-Riquelme,
Felipe Guhl,
Brenda Turriago,
Nestor Pinto,
Fernando Rosas,
Mónica Flórez Martínez,
Julia Fox-Rushby,
Clive Davies,
Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum

Published: November 18, 2008
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000336

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