Brazil's neglected tropical diseases: an overview and a report card

Peter J Hotez; Ricardo T Fujiwara

doi:10.1016/j.micinf.2014.07.006

Brazil's neglected tropical diseases: an overview and a report card

Microbes Infect. 2014 Aug;16(8):601-6. doi: 10.1016/j.micinf.2014.07.006. Epub 2014 Aug 1.

Authors

Peter J Hotez¹, Ricardo T Fujiwara²

Affiliations

¹ 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.
² Department of Parasitology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. Electronic address: fujiwara@icb.ufmg.br.

PMID: 25088506
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2014.07.006

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.

Keywords: Brazil; Helminth infections; NTDs; Neglected tropical diseases.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Brazil / epidemiology
Communicable Diseases / epidemiology*
Humans
Neglected Diseases / epidemiology*
Poverty
Socioeconomic Factors
Tropical Climate