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Fig. 5 | Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Fig. 5

From: Development of a data collection and management system in West Africa: challenges and sustainability

Fig. 5

Sustaining a data collection and management system in West Africa. The data collection and management system (DCMS) in West Africa has increased opportunities for training with international (Fogarty, PEER) and host country support, publication (this is the first ICEMR paper on data collection and development of the DCMS) and the ability (opportunity) for West African investigators to access international resources such as Medline and genome-related databases on a regular basis. GIS: Geographic information system; NGO: Non-governmental organisation; NCBI: National Center for Biotechnology Information; BLAST: Basic local alignment search tool; PLoS NTD: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

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