Modelling strategies to break transmission of lymphatic filariasis - aggregation, adherence and vector competence greatly alter elimination Quantitative analysis of strategies to achieve the 2020 goals for neglected tropical diseases: where are we now?

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Irvine, M A ^a   Reimer, L J ^c   Njenga, S M ^e   Gunawardena, S ^d   Kelly Hope, L ^c   Bockarie, M ^c   Hollingsworth, T D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^e KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE; IVERMECTIN; ANTIFILARIAL AGENT;

ADULT; ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES CULEX; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE ELIMINATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; KENYA; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MORTALITY; MOSQUITO BITE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE LOAD; PREVALENCE; RISK REDUCTION; SIMULATION; SRI LANKA; STOCHASTIC MODEL; VECTOR CONTROL; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; INSECT CONTROL; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; FILARICIDES; INSECT CONTROL; KENYA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREVALENCE; SRI LANKA;

EID: 84945175700     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-015-1152-3     Document Type: Article

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