Elimination of Onchocerciasis from Mexico.

• Main Authors: Mario A Rodríguez-Pérez (Author), Nadia A Fernández-Santos (Author), María E Orozco-Algarra (Author), José A Rodríguez-Atanacio (Author), Alfredo Domínguez-Vázquez (Author), Kristel B Rodríguez-Morales (Author), Olga Real-Najarro (Author), Francisco G Prado-Velasco (Author), Eddie W Cupp (Author), Frank O Richards (Author), Hassan K Hassan (Author), Jesús F González-Roldán (Author), Pablo A Kuri-Morales (Author), Thomas R Unnasch (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Mexico is one of the six countries formerly endemic for onchocerciasis in Latin America. Transmission has been interrupted in the three endemic foci of that country and mass drug distribution has ceased. Three years after mass drug distribution ended, post-treatment surveillance (PTS) sur...