Texas and Mexico: Sharing a Legacy of Poverty and Neglected Tropical Diseases

• Peter J. Hotez ,

  * E-mail: 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

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• 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

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• Eric Dumonteil,

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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Jaime Ortega,

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

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• Samuel Ponce de Leon Rosales,

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

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• Miguel Betancourt Cravioto,

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

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• Roberto Tapia-Conyer

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

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