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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...
Autores principales: | 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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4908809/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27301567 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-016-1605-3 |
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