Will COVID-19 become the next neglected tropical disease?

• Peter J. Hotez ,

  * E-mail: hotez@bcm.edu (PJH); bottazzi@bcm.edu (MEB); sunitsingh2000@bhu.ac.in (SKS); pbrindley@gwu.edu (PJB); skamhawi@niaid.nih.gov (SK)

  Affiliations Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology, 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, Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M University, Texas, United States of America, James A Baker III Institute of Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University, Texas, United States of America

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• Maria E. Bottazzi ,

  * E-mail: hotez@bcm.edu (PJH); bottazzi@bcm.edu (MEB); sunitsingh2000@bhu.ac.in (SKS); pbrindley@gwu.edu (PJB); skamhawi@niaid.nih.gov (SK)

  Affiliations Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology, 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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8429-0476

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• Sunit K. Singh ,

  * E-mail: hotez@bcm.edu (PJH); bottazzi@bcm.edu (MEB); sunitsingh2000@bhu.ac.in (SKS); pbrindley@gwu.edu (PJB); skamhawi@niaid.nih.gov (SK)

  Affiliation Molecular Biology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8802-1169

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• Paul J. Brindley ,

  * E-mail: hotez@bcm.edu (PJH); bottazzi@bcm.edu (MEB); sunitsingh2000@bhu.ac.in (SKS); pbrindley@gwu.edu (PJB); skamhawi@niaid.nih.gov (SK)

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington D.C., United States of America

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• Shaden Kamhawi

  * E-mail: hotez@bcm.edu (PJH); bottazzi@bcm.edu (MEB); sunitsingh2000@bhu.ac.in (SKS); pbrindley@gwu.edu (PJB); skamhawi@niaid.nih.gov (SK)

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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4304-636X

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