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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 ...

    Julio Vladimir Cruz-Chan, Jesus Valenzuela in Neglected Tropical Diseases - Latin Americ… (2015)

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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...

    Peter J. Hotez, Eric Dumonteil in Hot Topics in Infection and Immunity in Ch… (2013)