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are critical for parasite survival
” [2]; Lemos C. et al. (Hos-
pital de Santa Maria, CHLN, Lisboa) “
Case report: 28
year-old female with fever and thrombocytopenia .
” [2] (arti-
cle published in page 45 of this special issue).
The closing session was led by Professor J. Pinto
(GHTM/IHMT).
The workshop gathered people of ten different nation-
alities, representing 50 different institutions.The audi-
ence was comprised of a total of 76 people, including
29 students or interns from IHMT and 11 medical doc-
tors. Most of the participants were involved in malaria
research activities in biomedical and pharmaceutical sci-
ences (Msc&PhD students, Post-Doc Researchers).
The Non-Governmental Organization AMI-Fundação
de Assistência Médica Internacional was also represent-
ed in the workshop.
Briefly, the main objectives of the workshop, to inte-
grate views from different scientific areas and to fos-
ter exchange of knowledge, were achieved. At the end
there was a general consensus that multidisciplinary
events like this one need to be repeated in order to bet-
ter contribute to the aim of eliminating malaria.A hard
task that can only be achieved via further sponsoring
scientific networks that add value and new perspectives
making the difference in this complex problematic.
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White, N. J.
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Book of Abstracts of theWorkshop on Malaria transmission: current challenges and
new tools in the elimination context
. (GHTM/IHMT, 2017).
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The Malaria Atlas Project.
MAP
Available at:
https://map.ox.ac.uk/.(Ac-
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IR Mapper.Available at:
http://anopheles.irmapper.com/.(Accessed: 5th
March 2018)
Acknowledgments
We are grateful to all the invited speakers that kindly accepted to join us in the
workshop and share their knowledge and experience.
We would like to thank all the members of the Organizing and Scientific Com-
mittees for their time and generosity, and the Informatics team of IHMT for their
important technical support before and during the workshop.
This workshop was supported by GHTM (Project UID/Multi/04413/2013) and
CEAUL (Project UID/MAT/00006/2013) through FCT. We also would like to
thank the other sponsors: Fundo de Apoio à Comunidade Científica - FCT (FACC
– PROC. 17/1/230), FLAD, Fundação Oriente, PSE, SPE and Moustidose.
JV was supported by CRIA (Project UID/ANT/04038/2013) – FCT Portugal and
FLAD Foundation, namely its FLAD/Michael Teague Visiting Lecturer of Portu-
guese & Brazilian Studies program.
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