Neglected Tropical Diseases - Latin America and the Caribbean

The volume focuses on the neglected tropical diseases with the greatest burden in Latin America and the Caribbean, selected by how widespread they are and by the healthy years they cost people through disability. Chagas disease, leishmaniasis and the soil-transmitted helminth infections come first, followed by dengue, schistosomiasis, leprosy, cysticercosis, bartonellosis, vivax malaria and onchocerciasis.

Each topic is treated in terms of disease burden, its main clinical manifestations, and approaches to control and elimination across the region. The editors, Carlos Franco-Paredes and José Ignacio Santos-Preciado, have put together a volume aimed at specialists.

It will suit basic researchers and clinicians working in infectious disease, tropical medicine and parasitology, as well as scientists focused on the region.