China's shifting neglected parasitic infections in an era of economic reform, urbanization, disease control, and the Belt and Road Initiative

Lei Wang; Yang Zou; Xinping Zhu; Maria Elena Bottazzi; Peter J Hotez; Bin Zhan

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0006946

China's shifting neglected parasitic infections in an era of economic reform, urbanization, disease control, and the Belt and Road Initiative

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2019 Jan 24;13(1):e0006946. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006946. eCollection 2019 Jan.

Authors

Lei Wang^{1

2

3}, Yang Zou^{1

3}, Xinping Zhu⁴, Maria Elena Bottazzi^{2

5}, Peter J Hotez^{2

5}, Bin Zhan²

Affiliations

¹ Beijing Institute of Tropical Medicine, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, PR China.
² Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America.
³ Beijing Key Laboratory for Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases, Beijing, PR China.
⁴ Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University, Beijing, PR China.
⁵ Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

China / epidemiology
Communicable Disease Control / methods*
Humans
Neglected Diseases / epidemiology*
Neglected Diseases / parasitology
Neglected Diseases / prevention & control*
Parasitic Diseases / embryology*
Parasitic Diseases / parasitology
Parasitic Diseases / prevention & control*
Prevalence

Grants and funding

LW is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China grant # No.81702018. http://www.nsfc.gov.cn/. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.