About the Authors

Peter J. Hotez

hotez@bcm.edu (PJH); aodom@wustl.edu (AROJ); dlabeaud@stanford.edu (ADL)

Affiliations Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America

Audrey R. Odom John

hotez@bcm.edu (PJH); aodom@wustl.edu (AROJ); dlabeaud@stanford.edu (ADL)

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

A. Desiree LaBeaud

hotez@bcm.edu (PJH); aodom@wustl.edu (AROJ); dlabeaud@stanford.edu (ADL)

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

PJH is principal investigator and patent holder on vaccines against hookworm and schistosomiasis that are currently in clinical trials.