Is mass drug administration against lymphatic filariasis required in urban settings? The experience in Kano, Nigeria

BACKGROUND: The Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF), launched in 2000, has the target of eliminating the disease as a public health problem by the year 2020. The strategy adopted is mass drug administration (MDA) to all eligible individuals in endemic communities and the imple...

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Autores principales: Pam, Dung D., de Souza, Dziedzom K., D'Souza, Susan, Opoku, Millicent, Sanda, Safiya, Nazaradden, Ibrahim, Anagbogu, Ifeoma N., Okoronkwo, Chukwu, Davies, Emmanuel, Elhassan, Elisabeth, Molyneux, David H., Bockarie, Moses J., Koudou, Benjamin G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5665554/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29020042
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006004

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5665554/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29020042
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006004

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