What constitutes a neglected tropical disease?

• Peter J. Hotez ,

  * E-mail: hotez@bcm.edu (PJH); serap.aksoy@yale.edu (SA); 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, TX, United States of America, Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America, Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States of America, James A Baker III Institute of Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States of America, Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America

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

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• Serap Aksoy ,

  * E-mail: hotez@bcm.edu (PJH); serap.aksoy@yale.edu (SA); pbrindley@gwu.edu (PJB); skamhawi@niaid.nih.gov (SK)

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9941-143X

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• Paul J. Brindley ,

  * E-mail: hotez@bcm.edu (PJH); serap.aksoy@yale.edu (SA); pbrindley@gwu.edu (PJB); skamhawi@niaid.nih.gov (SK)

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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1765-0002

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• Shaden Kamhawi

  * E-mail: hotez@bcm.edu (PJH); serap.aksoy@yale.edu (SA); 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, MD, United States of America

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

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