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Scaling-Down Mass Ivermectin Treatment for Onchocerciasis Elimination: Modeling the Impact of the Geographical Unit for Decision Making

BACKGROUND: Due to spatial heterogeneity in onchocerciasis transmission, the duration of ivermectin mass drug administration (MDA) required for eliminating onchocerciasis will vary within endemic areas and the occurrence of transmission “hotspots” is inevitable. The geographical scale at which stop-...

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Autores principales: Stolk, Wilma A, Blok, David J, Hamley, Jonathan I D, Cantey, Paul T, de Vlas, Sake J, Walker, Martin, Basáñez, María-Gloria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8201558/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33909070
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciab238