Modelling Neglected Tropical Diseases diagnostics: the sensitivity of skin snips for Onchocerca volvulus in near elimination and surveillance settings

BACKGROUND: The African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control has proposed provisional thresholds for the prevalence of microfilariae in humans and of L3 larvae in blackflies, below which mass drug administration (MDA) with ivermectin can be stopped and surveillance started. Skin snips are currently...

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izdano v:Parasit Vectors
Main Authors: Bottomley, Christian, Isham, Valerie, Vivas-Martínez, Sarai, Kuesel, Annette C., Attah, Simon K., Opoku, Nicholas O., Lustigman, Sara, Walker, Martin, Basáñez, Maria-Gloria
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Jezik:Inglês
Izdano: BioMed Central 2016
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Online dostop:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4908809/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27301567
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-016-1605-3
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