Surveillance efforts after mass drug administration to validate elimination of lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem in Vanuatu

Abstract Background Vanuatu was formerly highly endemic for lymphatic filariasis (LF), caused by Wuchereria bancrofti and transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes. After a baseline survey showing 4.8% antigen prevalence in 1998, the country conducted nationwide (in one implementation unit) annual mass dr...

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Ngā kaituhi matua:	Fasihah Taleo, George Taleo, Patricia M. Graves, Peter Wood, Sung Hye Kim, Masayo Ozaki, Hayley Joseph, Brian Chu, Alex Pavluck, Aya Yajima, Wayne Melrose, Kazuyo Ichimori, Corinne Capuano
Hōputu:	Artigo
Reo:	Inglês
I whakaputaina:	BMC 2017-06-01
Rangatū:	Tropical Medicine and Health
Urunga tuihono:	http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41182-017-0057-6
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