Is mass drug administration against lymphatic filariasis required in urban settings? The experience in Kano, Nigeria

BACKGROUND: The Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF), launched in 2000, has the target of eliminating the disease as a public health problem by the year 2020. The strategy adopted is mass drug administration (MDA) to all eligible individuals in endemic communities and the imple...

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Published in:PLoS Negl Trop Dis
Main Authors: Pam, Dung D., de Souza, Dziedzom K., D'Souza, Susan, Opoku, Millicent, Sanda, Safiya, Nazaradden, Ibrahim, Anagbogu, Ifeoma N., Okoronkwo, Chukwu, Davies, Emmanuel, Elhassan, Elisabeth, Molyneux, David H., Bockarie, Moses J., Koudou, Benjamin G.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5665554/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29020042
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006004
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