Secondary Mapping of Lymphatic Filariasis in Haiti-Definition of Transmission Foci in Low-Prevalence Settings

Naomi Drexler, Charles H Washington, Maribeth Lovegrove, Caroline Grady, Marie Denise Milord, Thomas Streit and Patrick Lammie

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2012, vol. 6, issue 10, 1-10

Abstract: To eliminate Lymphatic filariasis (LF) as a public health problem, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that any area with infection prevalence greater than or equal to 1% (denoted by presence of microfilaremia or antigenemia) should receive mass drug administration (MDA) of antifilarial drugs for at least five consecutive rounds. Areas of low-antigen prevalence ( 1% prevalence of the infection, working under the assumption that areas with

Date: 2012
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