A multicenter evaluation of diagnostic tools to define endpoints for programs to eliminate bancroftian filariasis.

• Main Authors: Katherine Gass (Author), Madsen V E Beau de Rochars (Author), Daniel Boakye (Author), Mark Bradley (Author), Peter U Fischer (Author), John Gyapong (Author), Makoto Itoh (Author), Nese Ituaso-Conway (Author), Hayley Joseph (Author), Dominique Kyelem (Author), Sandra J Laney (Author), Anne-Marie Legrand (Author), Tilaka S Liyanage (Author), Wayne Melrose (Author), Khalfan Mohammed (Author), Nils Pilotte (Author), Eric A Ottesen (Author), Catherine Plichart (Author), Kapa Ramaiah (Author), Ramakrishna U Rao (Author), Jeffrey Talbot (Author), Gary J Weil (Author), Steven A Williams (Author), Kimberly Y Won (Author), Patrick Lammie (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Successful mass drug administration (MDA) campaigns have brought several countries near the point of Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) elimination. A diagnostic tool is needed to determine when the prevalence levels have decreased to a point that MDA campaigns can be discontinued without the threat of recru...