US Gulf Coast states: The rise of neglected tropical diseases in "flyover nation"

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Peter J. Hotez ,

* E-mail: hotez@bcm.edu

Affiliation National School of Tropical Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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

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Sheila Jackson Lee

Affiliation United States House of Representatives for the Eighteenth Congressional District of Texas, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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