The Gulf Coast: A New American Underbelly of Tropical Diseases and Poverty

• Peter J. Hotez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Peter J. Hotez, Kristy O. Murray, Pierre Buekens

  * E-mail: hotez@bcm.edu (PH); kmurray@bcm.edu (KM); pbuekens@tulane.edu (PB)

  Affiliations Section of Pediatric Tropical Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Houston, Texas, United States of America, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Kristy O. Murray ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Peter J. Hotez, Kristy O. Murray, Pierre Buekens

  * E-mail: hotez@bcm.edu (PH); kmurray@bcm.edu (KM); pbuekens@tulane.edu (PB)

  Affiliation Section of Pediatric Tropical Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Pierre Buekens

  Contributed equally to this work with: Peter J. Hotez, Kristy O. Murray, Pierre Buekens

  * E-mail: hotez@bcm.edu (PH); kmurray@bcm.edu (KM); pbuekens@tulane.edu (PB)

  Affiliation Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

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