Venezuela and its rising vector-borne neglected diseases

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2017 Jun 29;11(6):e0005423. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005423. eCollection 2017 Jun.

Peter J Hotez^{1

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6}, María-Gloria Basáñez⁷, Alvaro Acosta-Serrano^{8

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¹ Department of Pediatrics, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America.
² Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America.
³ Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America.
⁴ Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America.
⁵ James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America.
⁶ Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, The Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America.
⁷ Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine (St. Mary's campus), Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
⁸ Department of Parasitology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
⁹ Department of Vector Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
¹⁰ Laboratorio de Biología de Vectores y Parásitos, Instituto de Zoología y Ecología Tropical, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela.

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