Interruption of transmission of Onchocerca volvulus in the Southern Chiapas Focus, México.

• Main Authors: Mario A Rodríguez-Pérez (Author), Alfredo Domínguez-Vázquez (Author), Thomas R Unnasch (Author), Hassan K Hassan (Author), Juan I Arredondo-Jiménez (Author), María Eugenia Orozco-Algarra (Author), Kristel B Rodríguez-Morales (Author), Isabel C Rodríguez-Luna (Author), Francisco Gibert Prado-Velasco (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: The Southern Chiapas focus of onchocerciasis in Southern Mexico represents one of the major onchocerciasis foci in Latin America. All 559 endemic communities of this focus have undergone semi-annual mass treatment with ivermectin since 1998. In 50 communities of this focus, ivermectin fr...