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On Alor Island in Indonesia, Peter Fischer, professor of medicine at WashU Medicine, collects blood samples. He and collaborators seek to determine whether one of three types of parasites that cause the disease lymphatic filariasis has been eliminated from the island.
On Alor Island in Indonesia, Peter Fischer, professor of medicine at WashU Medicine, collects blood samples. He and collaborators seek to determine whether one of three types of parasites that cause the disease lymphatic filariasis has been eliminated from the island.
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Evidence from an Indonesian island shows the successful elimination of a parasitic worm causing a severe tropical disease. WashU Medicine Infectious Diseases faculty Peter U. Fischer, PhD, heads the school’s Death to Onchocerciasis and Lymphatic Filariasis Project (DOLF). Join Fischer and DOLF senior scientist Kerstin Fischer as they discover the long-term impacts of the work that started twenty years ago.