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Important progress towards elimination of onchocerciasis in the West Region of Cameroon

BACKGROUND: After more than a decade of community-directed treatment with ivermectin (CDTI) in the West Region of Cameroon, epidemiological evaluation conducted in 2011 showed that onchocerciasis endemicity was still high in some communities. The conceptual framework for onchocerciasis elimination r...

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Autores principales:	Kamga, Guy-Roger, Dissak-Delon, Fanny N., Nana-Djeunga, Hugues C., Biholong, Benjamin D., Ghogomu, Stephen Mbigha, Souopgui, Jacob, Kamgno, Joseph, Robert, Annie
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2017
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5543544/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28774318 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-017-2301-7

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