@article{94804,
  keywords = {Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases},
  author = {Yoshioka K and Hashimoto K and Monroy C},
  editor = {Debrabant A},
  title = {Has the prevalence of Chagas disease increased in Central Latin America?},
  abstract = {In their editorial published in PLOS NTDs, Hotez et al. [1] wrote that “the GBD 2017 [Global Burden of Disease Study 2017] tells a sobering story about progress in controlling malaria and NTDs [neglected tropical diseases]” in Central Latin America (CLA). CLA is a region defined by the GBD 2017, including Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela. As part of the sobering story, Hotez et al. [1] found that the prevalence of Chagas disease increased by 16% from 2000 to 2017, implying that its control has not progressed during the last two decades. In this article, we show that the GBD 2017 can tell a different story about Chagas disease in CLA.},
  year = {2020},
  journal = {PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases},
  volume = {14},
  pages = {e0008851},
  publisher = {Public Library of Science (PLoS)},
  issn = {1935-2735},
  url = {https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0008851&type=printable},
  doi = {10.1371/journal.pntd.0008851},
  language = {eng},
}