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. 2017 Sep 7;60(12):1383–1385. doi: 10.1007/s11427-017-9141-3

China in action: national strategies to combat against emerging infectious diseases

Min Han 1, Jinhui Gu 2, George F Gao 1,3, William J Liu 3,✉
PMCID: PMC7088851  PMID: 28887624

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Acknowledgements

We thank Dr. Gary Wong for critical review of the manuscript. This work was supported by Major Special Projects for Infectious Disease Research of China (2016ZX10004222-003), National Natural Science Foundation of China (81401312, 81373141), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81321063 to George F. Gao).

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