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

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 drug admin...

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Udgivet i:Trop Med Health
Main Authors: Taleo, Fasihah, Taleo, George, Graves, Patricia M., Wood, Peter, Kim, Sung Hye, Ozaki, Masayo, Joseph, Hayley, Chu, Brian, Pavluck, Alex, Yajima, Aya, Melrose, Wayne, Ichimori, Kazuyo, Capuano, Corinne
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Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: BioMed Central 2017
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Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5472907/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28630586
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-017-0057-6
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