@article{26524,
  author = {Hotez P and Alvarado M and Basáñez M and Bolliger I and Bourne R and Boussinesq M and Brooker S and Brown AS and Buckle G and Budke C and Carabin H and Coffeng L and Fèvre EM and Fürst T and Halasa YA and Jasrasaria R and Johns N and Keiser J and King C and Lozano R and Murdoch M and O'Hanlon S and Pion S and Pullan R and Ramaiah K and Roberts T and Shepard DS and Smith JL and Stolk W and Undurraga E and Utzinger J and Wang M and Murray C and Naghavi M},
  title = {The global burden of disease study 2010: interpretation and implications for the neglected tropical diseases.},
  abstract = {<p>Introduction:</p>

<p>The publication of the <em>Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010)</em> and the accompanying collection of <em>Lancet</em> articles in December 2012 provided the most comprehensive attempt to quantify the burden of almost 300 diseases, injuries, and risk factors, including neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The disability-adjusted life year (DALY), the metric used in the GBD 2010, is a tool which may be used to assess and compare the relative impact of a number of diseases locally and globally. Table 1 lists the major NTDs as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO)&nbsp;and their estimated DALYs. With a few exceptions, most of the NTDs currently listed by the WHO or those on the expanded list from <em>PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases</em>&nbsp;are disablers rather than killers, so the DALY estimates represent one of the few metrics available that could fully embrace the chronic effects of these infections.</p>

<p>Even DALYs, however, do not tell the complete story of the harmful effects from NTDs.</p>
},
  year = {2014},
  journal = {PLoS neglected tropical diseases},
  volume = {8},
  pages = {e2865},
  issn = {1935-2735},
  url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4109880/ },
  doi = {10.1371/journal.pntd.0002865},
  language = {eng},
}