Response to the Letter to the Editor by Eberhard et al.

In a Letter to the Editor, Eberhard et al. question the validity of our model of skin snip sensitivity and argue against the use of skin snips to evaluate onchocerciasis elimination by mass drug administration. Here we discuss their arguments and compare model predictions with observed data to asses...

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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
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5434579/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28511662
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-017-2125-5
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author Bottomley, Christian
Isham, Valerie
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Attah, Simon K.
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Basáñez, Maria-Gloria
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description In a Letter to the Editor, Eberhard et al. question the validity of our model of skin snip sensitivity and argue against the use of skin snips to evaluate onchocerciasis elimination by mass drug administration. Here we discuss their arguments and compare model predictions with observed data to assess the validity of our model.
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spelling pubmed-54345792017-05-18 Response to the Letter to the Editor by Eberhard et al. Bottomley, Christian Isham, Valerie Vivas-Martínez, Sarai Kuesel, Annette C. Attah, Simon K. Opoku, Nicholas O. Lustigman, Sara Walker, Martin Basáñez, Maria-Gloria Parasit Vectors Letter to the Editor In a Letter to the Editor, Eberhard et al. question the validity of our model of skin snip sensitivity and argue against the use of skin snips to evaluate onchocerciasis elimination by mass drug administration. Here we discuss their arguments and compare model predictions with observed data to assess the validity of our model. BioMed Central 2017-05-16 /pmc/articles/PMC5434579/ /pubmed/28511662 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-017-2125-5 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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Walker, Martin
Basáñez, Maria-Gloria
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