Status of Onchocerciasis Transmission after More Than a Decade of Mass Drug Administration for Onchocerciasis and Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination in Central Nigeria: Challenges in Coordinating the Stop MDA Decision

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Evans, Darin S ^a   Alphonsus, Kal ^a   Umaru, Jon ^a   Eigege, Abel ^a   Miri, Emmanuel ^a   Mafuyai, Hayward ^b   Gonzales Peralta, Carlos ^c   Adamani, William ^a   Pede, Elias ^d   Umbugadu, Christopher ^e   Saka, Yisa ^f   Okoeguale, Bridget ^f   Richards, Frank O ^a  

^a CARTER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOS   (Nigeria)

^c River Blindness Foundation   (United States)

^d Plateau State Ministry of Health   (Nigeria)

^e Nasarawa State Ministry of Health   (Nigeria)

^f Ministry of Federal Health Nigeria   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTIBODY; IVERMECTIN; OV16 ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; ANTIPARASITIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROFILARIAL SKIN SNIP; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PALPATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PUNCH BIOPSY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAMPLE SIZE; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEROPREVALENCE; SIMULIUM DAMNOSUM; SKIN NODULE; ZOOLOGY; ANIMAL; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; MICROFILARIA; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SIMULIIDAE; TRANSMISSION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ALBENDAZOLE; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIPARASITIC AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IVERMECTIN; MALE; MICROFILARIA; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PREVALENCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SIMULIIDAE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907587026     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003113     Document Type: Article

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