Southern Europe’s Coming Plagues: Vector-Borne Neglected Tropical Diseases

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Hotez, Peter J ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAGAS DISEASE; CHIKUNGUNYA; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; DENGUE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDITORIAL; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS; LYME DISEASE; MALARIA; NEGLECTED DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OPISTHORCHIASIS; PLAGUE; POVERTY; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WEST NILE VIRUS; ANIMAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INSECT VECTOR; MICROBIOLOGY; MIGRATION; NEGLECTED DISEASES; PARASITOLOGY; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; NEGLECTED DISEASES; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84979073676     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004243     Document Type: Editorial

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