The global burden of disease study 2013: What does it mean for the NTDs?

1 Department of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 2 James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 3 Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 4 Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, 5 Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America, 6 Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, 7 Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 8 London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, 9 University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, 10 Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, 11 Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America, 12 International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya, 13 Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 14 School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, 15 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, 16 University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 17 Schneider Institutes for Health Policy, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America, 18 Center for Global Health and Diseases, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, 19 Department of Dermatology, Watford General Hospital, Watford, Herts, United Kingdom, 20 Consultant on Lymphatic Filariasis, Tagore Nagar, Pondicherry, India