@article{25411,
  keywords = {Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), Disability, DALY},
  author = {Hotez P and Alvarado M and áñez G 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 èvre EM and ürst 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 and Silva NR},
  title = {The global burden of disease study 2010: Interpretation and implications for the neglected tropical diseases.},
  abstract = {<p>The publication of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010) and the accompanying collection of Lancet 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) [1]–[3]. 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 [4]–[6]. Table 1 lists the major NTDs as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) [7] and their estimated DALYs [1]. With a few exceptions, most of the NTDs currently listed by the WHO [7] or those on the expanded list from PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases [8] 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>
},
  year = {2014},
  journal = {PLoS neglected tropical diseases},
  volume = {8},
  pages = {e2865},
  url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4109880/pdf/pntd.0002865.pdf},
  doi = {10.1371/journal.pntd.0002865},
  language = {eng},
}