Upon entering an age of global ivermectin-based integrated mass drug administration for neglected tropical diseases and malaria

Ivermectin mass drug administration (MDA) in humans to reduce malaria vectors is yet another use for this remarkable medicine whose discoverers shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine with the discoverer of artemisinin. The malaria community should join those who have long used ivermectin MDA in an...

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Autor principal: Richards, Frank O.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5404338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28438168
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-017-1830-z
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description Ivermectin mass drug administration (MDA) in humans to reduce malaria vectors is yet another use for this remarkable medicine whose discoverers shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine with the discoverer of artemisinin. The malaria community should join those who have long used ivermectin MDA in an integrated battle to break transmission of three vector-borne parasitic diseases.
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spelling pubmed-54043382017-04-27 Upon entering an age of global ivermectin-based integrated mass drug administration for neglected tropical diseases and malaria Richards, Frank O. Malar J Commentary Ivermectin mass drug administration (MDA) in humans to reduce malaria vectors is yet another use for this remarkable medicine whose discoverers shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine with the discoverer of artemisinin. The malaria community should join those who have long used ivermectin MDA in an integrated battle to break transmission of three vector-borne parasitic diseases. BioMed Central 2017-04-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5404338/ /pubmed/28438168 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-017-1830-z Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Upon entering an age of global ivermectin-based integrated mass drug administration for neglected tropical diseases and malaria
title Upon entering an age of global ivermectin-based integrated mass drug administration for neglected tropical diseases and malaria
title_full Upon entering an age of global ivermectin-based integrated mass drug administration for neglected tropical diseases and malaria
title_fullStr Upon entering an age of global ivermectin-based integrated mass drug administration for neglected tropical diseases and malaria
title_full_unstemmed Upon entering an age of global ivermectin-based integrated mass drug administration for neglected tropical diseases and malaria
title_short Upon entering an age of global ivermectin-based integrated mass drug administration for neglected tropical diseases and malaria
title_sort upon entering an age of global ivermectin-based integrated mass drug administration for neglected tropical diseases and malaria
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