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Low transmission of Wuchereria bancrofti in cross-border districts of Côte d’Ivoire: A great step towards lymphatic filariasis elimination in West Africa
BACKGROUND: Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is widely endemic in Côte d’Ivoire, and elimination as public health problem (EPHP) is based on annual mass drug administration (MDA) using ivermectin and albendazole. To guide EPHP efforts, we evaluated Wuchereria bancrofti infection indices among humans, and m...
Autores principales: | Yokoly, Firmain N., Zahouli, Julien B. Z., Méite, Aboulaye, Opoku, Millicent, Kouassi, Bernard L., de Souza, Dziedzom K., Bockarie, Moses, Koudou, Benjamin G. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7153895/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32282840 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231541 |
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