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well-administered foundation, with the sole purpose of ensuring that every child in underdeveloped countries has access to all available vaccines, independent of their cost, and to guarantee that these children are nourished properly during the first five years of their lives. This would help give a fair start in life to the people born in underdeveloped nations."
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into a human body. Rotavirus is spread through the mouth and skin, but the virus leaves those cells alone and only infects and reproduces in cells in the small intestine. She has additionally studied how the rotavirus spreads in human populations, the immune response to it, and its replication cycle.
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Charretón won the Gabino Barreda Medal from UNAM in 1988 for her PhD research. In 1991, she was a Fogarty Fellow. López Charretón won the Funsalud Biennial Award in Gastrointestinal Diseases from the Mexican Foundation for Health in 2000 and 2002. In 2001, she was awarded the Carlos J. Finlay
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Prize for Women in
Science, a prestigious prize given to only one woman scientist per continent each year. López Charretón won the award for Latin America for "identifying how rotaviruses cause the death of 600,000 children each year." That same year, she was also awarded the
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This work has contributed to new diagnostic tests, isolation of new strains, and efforts towards a vaccine. She's published more than 130 papers in international journals. She also spent nearly nine years serving on the editorial board for the
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Crawford, Sue E.; Ramani, Sasirekha; Tate, Jacqueline E.; Parashar, Umesh D.; Svensson, Lennart; Hagbom, Marie; Franco, Manuel A.; Greenberg, Harry B.; O’Ryan, Miguel; Kang, Gagandeep; Desselberger, Ulrich (9 November 2017).
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