Sequential Modelling of the Effects of Mass Drug Treatments on Anopheline-Mediated Lymphatic Filariasis Infection in Papua New Guinea

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Singh, Brajendra K ^a   Bockarie, Moses J ^b   Gambhir, Manoj ^c   Siba, Peter M ^d   Tisch, Daniel J ^e   Kazura, James ^e   Michael, Edwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^e CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE; IVERMECTIN;

ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMMUNITY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MASS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MONITORING; MONOTHERAPY; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREVALENCE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BAYES THEOREM; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PREVALENCE; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 84879482488     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067004     Document Type: Article

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