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Review
. 2010 Oct 26;4(10):e780.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000780.

Research priorities for neglected infectious diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean region

Jean-Claude Dujardin  1 , Socrates Herrera, Virgilio do Rosario, Jorge Arevalo, Marleen Boelaert, Hernan J Carrasco, Rodrigo Correa-Oliveira, Lineth Garcia, Eduardo Gotuzzo, Theresa W Gyorkos, Alexis M Kalergis, Gustavo Kouri, Vicente Larraga, Pascal Lutumba, Maria Angeles Macias Garcia, Pablo C Manrique-Saide, Farrokh Modabber, Alberto Nieto, Gerd Pluschke, Carlos Robello, Antonieta Rojas de Arias, Martin Rumbo, Jose Ignacio Santos Preciado, Shyam Sundar, Jaime Torres, Faustino Torrico, Patrick Van der Stuyft, Kathleen Victoir, Ole F Olesen
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Research priorities for neglected infectious diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean region

Jean-Claude Dujardin et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. .
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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Five groups of diseases were identified as priorities for research in LAC, and examples of key diseases belonging to each group are indicated.
Note: there is an overlap between the emerging viral diseases of regional importance and the arthropod vector-borne diseases.
See this image and copyright information in PMC

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