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Elimination of lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem from the Cook Islands

BACKGROUND: The Cook Islands has a long history of high-endemicity lymphatic filariasis (LF) transmitted by Aedes vector mosquitoes. Though the infection prevalence had declined between 1975 and 1999 following episodic treatment activities, still infection was widespread with pockets of persistent i...

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Autores principales: Ave, Charlie, Kapa, D Ramaiah, Ottesen, Eric
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5952626/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29785168
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-018-0094-9