Chagas Disease: “The New HIV/AIDS of the Americas”
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1 Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology, and Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 2 National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 3 Laboratorio de Parasitologia, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales ‘‘Dr Hideyo Noguchi’’, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, 4 Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 5 Department of Emergency Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 6 Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 7 Houston Department of Health and Human Services, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 8 Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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