The neglected tropical diseases of Latin America and the Caribbean: A review of disease burden and distribution and a roadmap for control and elimination

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Hotez, Peter J ^a   Bottazzi, Maria Elena ^a   Franco Paredes, Carlos ^b,c   Ault, Steven K ^d   Periago, Mirta Roses ^d  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL INFANTIL DE MÉXICO FEDERICO GÓMEZ   (Mexico)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISCHISTOSOMAL AGENT; DENGUE VACCINE; LEPROSY VACCINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHAGAS DISEASE; CYSTICERCOSIS; DENGUE; DISABILITY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FILARIASIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INFECTION CONTROL; LEISHMANIASIS; LEPROSY; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SOCIAL WORK; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; TRACHOMA; TROPICAL DISEASE; TUBERCULOSIS; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CHILD; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMICS; INCOME; POVERTY; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; STATISTICS; TROPIC CLIMATE; TROPICAL MEDICINE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHILD; COST OF ILLNESS; HIV INFECTIONS; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCOME; LATIN AMERICA; POVERTY; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; THINNESS; TROPICAL CLIMATE; TROPICAL MEDICINE; WEST INDIES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 56249089380     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000300     Document Type: Review

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