TY - JOUR
KW - Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
KW - Infectious Diseases
AU - Yoshioka K
AU - Hashimoto K
AU - Monroy C
AU - Debrabant A
AB - 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.
BT - PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
DO - 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008851
IS - 12
LA - eng
N2 - 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.
PB - Public Library of Science (PLoS)
PY - 2020
EP - e0008851
T2 - PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
TI - Has the prevalence of Chagas disease increased in Central Latin America?
UR - https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0008851&type=printable
VL - 14
SN - 1935-2735
ER -