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Implications for annual retesting after a test-and-not-treat strategy for onchocerciasis elimination in areas co-endemic with Loa loa infection: an observational cohort study

BACKGROUND: A test-and-not-treat (TaNT) strategy has been developed to prevent people with high concentrations of circulating Loa loa microfilariae (>20 000 microfilariae per mL) developing serious adverse events after ivermectin treatment during mass drug administration to eliminate onchocercias...

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Autores principales: Pion, Sébastien DS, Nana-Djeunga, Hugues, Niamsi-Emalio, Yannick, Chesnais, Cédric B, Deléglise, Hugo, Mackenzie, Charles, Stolk, Wilma, Fletcher, Daniel A, Klion, Amy D, Nutman, Thomas B, Boussinesq, Michel, Kamgno, Joseph
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Science ;, The Lancet Pub. Group 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8150319/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31676244
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(19)30554-7