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ReviewFrontiers in public health2021

Prospects of Immunology Education and Research in Developing Countries.

Alexander Kwarteng, Augustina Sylverken, Daniel Antwi-Berko, Samuel Terkper Ahuno, Samuel Opoku Asiedu

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Review in Frontiers in public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Alexander KwartengDepartment of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
Augustina SylverkenKumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
Daniel Antwi-BerkoDepartment of Basic and Applied Biology, University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR), Sunyani, Ghana.
Samuel Terkper AhunoDepartment of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
Samuel Opoku AsieduKumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The burden of infectious disease in developing countries is substantially higher than in developed nations. Reasons include poor health care infrastructure and deficiencies in public understanding of infectious disease mechanisms and disease prevention. While immunology education and research have an enviable role in understanding host-pathogen interactions, training programs in immunology remain fully integrated into the curricula of higher institutions, and by extension, to high schools of developing nations. Therefore, we discussed the need to make major investments in immunology research and research training into all natural sciences teaching curricula, particularly in developing countries.

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CurriculumDeveloping CountriesDelivery of Health CareEducational StatusSchoolseducationimmunologyinfectious diseaseresearchtraining programs

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PMID34169055
PMCPMC8217613

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