About the Authors

Peter J. Hotez

hotez@bcm.edu

Affiliations Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology, and Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children's Center for Vaccine Development, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Eric Dumonteil

Affiliation Laboratorio de Parasitologia, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales “Dr Hideyo Noguchi”, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico

Laila Woc-Colburn

Affiliations National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jose A. Serpa

Affiliations National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Sarah Bezek

Affiliations National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Emergency Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Morven S. Edwards

Affiliations National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Camden J. Hallmark

Affiliations National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Houston Department of Health and Human Services, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Laura W. Musselwhite

Affiliation Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Benjamin J. Flink

Affiliation Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Maria Elena Bottazzi

Affiliations Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology, and Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children's Center for Vaccine Development, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

Drs. Hotez and Bottazzi are principal investigators on a vaccine in development against Chagas disease.