Cures for the third world's problems. The application of genomics to the diseases plaguing the developing world may have huge medical and economic benefits for those countries and might even prevent armed conflict

EMBO Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 806-812

  Broder, Samuel ^a   Hoffman, Stephen L ^a   Hotez, Peter J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; BCG VACCINE; BENZIMIDAZOLE; HOOKWORM VACCINE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS VACCINE; IVERMECTIN; LEISHMANIA VACCINE; MACROPHAGE MIGRATION INHIBITION FACTOR; MALARIA VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; MENINGITIS VACCINE; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; TISSUE FACTOR PATHWAY INHIBITOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACCINE; VASODILATOR AGENT;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; BRUGIA; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG COST; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG RESEARCH; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; FILARIASIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; LEISHMANIASIS; MALARIA; MEASLES; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; ONCHOCERCIASIS; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TROPICAL DISEASE; TUBERCULOSIS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENOME; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; TUBERCULOSIS; WAR;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; BRUGIA; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG;

EID: 0036748412     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/embo-reports/kvf187     Document Type: Note

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