An Unfolding Tragedy of Chagas Disease in North America
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1 National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and the Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 2 James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 3 Autonomous University of Yucatan (UADY), Merida, Mexico, 4 Carlos Slim Health Institute, Mexico D.F., Mexico, 5 Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, 6 Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Geneva, Switzerland, 7 Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), Geneva, Switzerland and New York, New York, United States of America
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