A community-based study of factors associated with continuing transmission of lymphatic filariasis in Leogane, Haiti.

• Main Authors: Alexis Boyd (Author), Kimberly Y Won (Author), Shannon K McClintock (Author), Catherine V Donovan (Author), Sandra J Laney (Author), Steven A Williams (Author), Nils Pilotte (Author), Thomas G Streit (Author), Madsen V E Beau de Rochars (Author), Patrick J Lammie (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Seven rounds of mass drug administration (MDA) have been administered in Leogane, Haiti, an area hyperendemic for lymphatic filariasis (LF). Sentinel site surveys showed that the prevalence of microfilaremia was reduced to <1% from levels as high as 15.5%, suggesting that transmission had been re...