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Editorial
. 2012;6(3):e1497.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001497. Epub 2012 Mar 27.

Texas and Mexico: sharing a legacy of poverty and neglected tropical diseases

Peter J Hotez, Maria Elena Bottazzi, Eric Dumonteil, Jesus G Valenzuela, Shaden Kamhawi, Jaime Ortega, Samuel Ponce de Leon Rosales, Miguel Betancourt Cravioto, Roberto Tapia-Conyer
Editorial

Texas and Mexico: sharing a legacy of poverty and neglected tropical diseases

Peter J Hotez et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2012.
No abstract available

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Conflict of interest statement

Drs. Hotez and Bottazzi are principal investigators for vaccines against hookworm and schistosomiasis currently in development.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1. Poverty in Mexico by state.
Map created by Usfirstgov with data from government website http://www.coneval.gob.mx/mapas/NACIONAL/Nacional.pdf, accessed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Overall_Poverty.PNG March 7, 2012.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Figure created at diy.net with data from US Census Bureau 2010 Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates accessed at http://www.census.gov/did/www/saipe/county.html March 6, 2012.
See this image and copyright information in PMC

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