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William A. Petri

Researcher at University of Virginia

Publications -  541
Citations -  32183

William A. Petri is an academic researcher from University of Virginia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Entamoeba histolytica & Population. The author has an hindex of 85, co-authored 507 publications receiving 26906 citations. Previous affiliations of William A. Petri include International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh & University of Vermont.

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Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

Simon I. Hay, +803 more
- 16 Sep 2017 - 
TL;DR: At a global level, DALYs and HALE continue to show improvements and the importance of continued health interventions, which has changed in most locations in pace with the gross domestic product per person, education, and family planning.
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The genome of the protist parasite Entamoeba histolytica

TL;DR: The genome of E. histolytica is presented, which reveals a variety of metabolic adaptations shared with two other amitochondrial protist pathogens: Giardia lamblia and Trichomonas vaginalis, and provides new insights into the workings and genome evolution of a major human pathogen.
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Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

Daniel Dicker, +1158 more
- 10 Nov 2018 - 
TL;DR: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2017 as mentioned in this paper was the most recent iteration of the GBD, which used all available data to produce estimates of mortality rates between 1950 and 2017 for 23 age groups.