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Impact of long-term treatment of onchocerciasis with ivermectin in Kaduna State, Nigeria: first evidence of the potential for elimination in the operational area of the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control

BACKGROUND: Onchocerciasis can be effectively controlled as a public health problem by annual mass drug administration of ivermectin, but it was not known if ivermectin treatment in the long term would be able to achieve elimination of onchocerciasis infection and interruption of transmission in end...

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Autores principales: Tekle, Afework Hailemariam, Elhassan, Elizabeth, Isiyaku, Sunday, Amazigo, Uche V, Bush, Simon, Noma, Mounkaila, Cousens, Simon, Abiose, Adenike, Remme, Jan H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3296569/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22313631
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-5-28