About the Authors

Peter J. Hotez

hotez@bcm.edu

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

Maria Elena Bottazzi

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

Eric Dumonteil

Affiliation Laboratorio de Parasitología, Centro De Investigaciones Regional “Dr. Hideo Noguchi”, Autonomous University of Yucatan (UADY), Merida, Mexico

Jesus G. Valenzuela

Affiliation Vector Molecular Biology Section, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Shaden Kamhawi

Affiliation Vector Molecular Biology Section, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Jaime Ortega

Affiliation Departamento de Biotecnología y Bioingeniería, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados - Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV-IPN), Mexico City, Mexico

Samuel Ponce de Leon Rosales

Affiliation Laboratorios de Biológicos y Reactivos de Mexico (BIRMEX), Mexico City, Mexico

Miguel Betancourt Cravioto

Affiliation Instituto Carlos Slim de la Salud (ICSS), Mexico City, Mexico

Roberto Tapia-Conyer

Affiliation Instituto Carlos Slim de la Salud (ICSS), Mexico City, Mexico

Competing Interests

Drs. Hotez and Bottazzi are principal investigators for vaccines against hookworm and schistosomiasis currently in development.