title: Brazil's neglected tropical diseases: an overview and a report card.
abstract: Today, the nation of Brazil leads the Western Hemisphere in terms of the number of its citizens living with neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). These diseases continue to trap Brazil's "bottom 20 million" in extreme poverty.
authors.affiliation: Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States; Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States; James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States. Electronic address: hotez@bcm.edu.
authors.forename: Peter J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Hotez
authors.affiliation: Department of Parasitology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. Electronic address: fujiwara@icb.ufmg.br.
authors.forename: Ricardo T
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Fujiwara
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D058069:Neglected Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011203:Poverty; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014329:Tropical Climate
keywords: Brazil; Helminth infections; NTDs; Neglected tropical diseases