At the risk of missing someone, I also want to acknowledge substantial contributions by Freeman Deutsch, Khang Dao, Fred Gilham, Yehuda Katz, George Mills, Sanford Owings, and Randy Sargent.
We also acknowledge the substantial contribution of all women who participated in the study.
Dr Gertrude P. Thusi (GPT) sadly demised during the manuscript submission and we wish to acknowledge her substantial contribution.
We would like to acknowledge the substantial contribution made by Dr. Pratibha Dhingra during the preparation of the manuscript.
We would like to acknowledge the substantial contribution of Angelika Ackermann in the establishment of all of the methods used in this study and her invaluable assistance in cell culture, in the immunofluorescence stainings, and in performing the Western immunoblots.
The authors are very thankful to the women who gave up their time to participe in the study, and also acknowledge the substantial contribution made by the field work and by the health professionals of the Primary Health Care units where the research took place.
Acknowledging the substantial contributions to programmes in DRC, the UNICEF Representative Pierrette Vu Thi commended the exemplary commitment of the Government of Japan to the cause of children in the DRC and the regular support Japan provides to improve the conditions and quality of lives for Congolese women and children around the country.
While we acknowledge the substantial contributions to the education of children with SEN made by special schools, many who would previously have been placed in such schools have, over the last 30 years, benefited from an education alongside their peers.
We acknowledge their substantial contributions.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2253/14/33/prepub The authors gratefully acknowledge the substantial contributions and expert advice of Associate Professor Pamela Macintyre, Director of Acute Pain Service (Royal Adelaide Hospital).
Authors would like to acknowledge the substantial contributions of Dr. Stylianos Hantanis regarding the performance of the echocardiographs of this study, as well as the contributions of Dr. Panagiota Spyropoulou, who has been a great support for the conduct of the ELISA tests.
