Anthony Butterworth

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Anthony Butterworth FRS is a British immunologist.

He worked for the Schistosomiasis Research Group at the University of Cambridge. [1] [2] His laboratory work is supplemented by field studies in sub-Saharan Africa, the Philippines, South America and the United States. [3]

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He is a former trustee of the international water and sanitation charity Pump Aid. [4]

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  2. avd26@cam.ac.uk (10 August 2011). "Cambridge in Africa — Cambridge Infectious Diseases". www.infectiousdisease.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
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  4. "Pump Aid and the Elephant Pump in Zimbabwe". Archived from the original on 11 May 2003. Retrieved 13 May 2022.