Dosing pole recommendations for lymphatic filariasis elimination: A height-weight quantile regression modeling approach.

• Main Authors: Charles W Goss (Author), Katiuscia O'Brian (Author), Christine Dubray (Author), Peter U Fischer (Author), Myra Hardy (Author), Purushothaman Jambulingam (Author), Christopher L King (Author), Moses Laman (Author), Jean Frantz Lemoine (Author), Leanne J Robinson (Author), Josaia Samuela (Author), Swaminathan Subramanian (Author), Taniawati Supali (Author), Gary J Weil (Author), Kenneth B Schechtman (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>The World Health Organization (WHO) currently recommends height or age-based dosing as alternatives to weight-based dosing for mass drug administration lymphatic filariasis (LF) elimination programs. The goals of our study were to compare these alternative dosing strat...