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Leishmaniasis in the Americas
Leishmaniasis is a neglected tropical disease caused by kinetoplastid protozoan parasites belonging to the Leishmania genus. Infection causes a wide diversity of clinical manifestations, ranging in severity from ...
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Innovation for the ‘Bottom 100 Million’: Eliminating Neglected Tropical Diseases in the Americas
An estimated 100 million people in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region live on less than US$2 per day, while another 46 million people in the US live below that nation’s poverty line. Almost all of t...