Mathematical modelling of lymphatic filariasis elimination programmes in India: required duration of mass drug administration and post-treatment level of infection indicators

BACKGROUND: India has made great progress towards the elimination of lymphatic filariasis. By 2015, most endemic districts had completed at least five annual rounds of mass drug administration (MDA). The next challenge is to determine when MDA can be stopped. We performed a simulation study with the...

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Autores principales: Jambulingam, Purushothaman, Subramanian, Swaminathan, de Vlas, S. J., Vinubala, Chellasamy, Stolk, W. A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5022201/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27624157
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-016-1768-y

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