Venezuela and its rising vector-borne neglected diseases

• Peter J. Hotez ,

  * E-mail: hotez@bcm.edu

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, 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, James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, The Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8770-1042

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• María-Gloria Basáñez,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine (St. Mary’s campus), Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Alvaro Acosta-Serrano,

  Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Department of Vector Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Maria Eugenia Grillet

  Affiliation Laboratorio de Biología de Vectores y Parásitos, Instituto de Zoología y Ecología Tropical, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela

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