Costs of Transmission Assessment Surveys to Provide Evidence for the Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis.

• Main Authors: Molly A Brady (Author), Rachel Stelmach (Author), Margaret Davide-Smith (Author), Jim Johnson (Author), Bolivar Pou (Author), Joseph Koroma (Author), Kingsley Frimpong (Author), Angela Weaver (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:To reach the global goal of elimination of lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem by 2020, national programs will have to implement a series of transmission assessment surveys (TAS) to determine prevalence of the disease by evaluation unit. It is expected that 4,671 surveys will...