In reply to: "Should we consider renaming 'Mesoamerican Nephropathy' as Nephropathy of Unknown Cause in Agricultural Labourers (NUCAL)?"

Affiliations

• ¹ Centro de Hemodiálisis, San Salvador, El Salvador Emergency Social Fund for Health of Tierra Blanca, Tierra Blanca, El Salvador.
• ² Section of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Goteborg, Sweden.
• ³ Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Universidad de San Carlos, Guatemala, Guatemala.
• ⁴ Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• ⁵ Regional Institute for Studies on Toxic Substances (IRET), Program on Health, Work and Environment (SALTRA), Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica.
• ⁶ Research Department, Cardiovascular Surgery Unit, Guatemala, Guatemala Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
• ⁷ Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez, Mexico city, Mexico.
• ⁸ Research Center on Health, Work and Environment (CISTA), National Autonomous University of Nicaragua at León (UNAN-León), León, Nicaragua Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
• ⁹ Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ¹⁰ Department of Work Environment, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA.
• ¹¹ Department of Nephrology and Mineral Metabolism, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición, Salvador Zubirán, Mexico city, Mexico.