The authors thank Ms Debbie Bailey for technical support for the histopathology sections, and Dr Rachel Benamore for perusal of radiology images.
We are grateful to Paulo Albe for technical support in performing histological sections and Dr. Robson L. Melo for the 161 180 IRBP peptide synthesis.
Social policy, knowledge management, programme coordination and communication will provide technical support to the three programme sections as well as direct support to government, working closely with development partners and civil society.
Initially this section consisted only of program coordination staff (with technical support coming from program specialists from other sections), while from 2008 the PCFP Section has included technical specialists to give more intensive support to implementation of activities in the PCFP provinces.
Birgit Schramm for helping with cell cultures on EM grids and Anja Habermann for technical support with the Epon embedding and sectioning.
TM calculated the ortholog dataset, provided technical support for database storage, and wrote sections of the manuscript.
Other possibilities exist for the WASH unit to receive technical support from the Communication and Education sections of UNICEF beyond the current levels.
Contribution: J.L. directed the research and wrote the paper; A.M. operated the SLO analysis; H.X. carried out the SLO analysis, prepared the figures, and contributed to the manuscript; I.C. assisted with experimental design and contributed to the manuscript; R.D. prepared and scored the tissue sections and provided technical support.
The toolkit section on the 'systemic approach' emphasises the need for inter-agency cooperation and collaboration, including in the area of funding and technical support, and this is also covered in the section on 'technical support'.
We thank HJF Maccioni for helpful discussions, I Szijman and RD Del Boca for human sample supply, GA Roth for rat spinal cord sections and Laura Argañaraz for excellent technical support.
