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What is needed to eradicate lymphatic filariasis? : A model-based assessment on the impact of scaling up mass drug administration programs [PDF]

, 2015
Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a neglected tropical disease for which more than a billion people in 73 countries are thought to be at-risk. At a global level, the efforts against LF are designed as an elimination program. However, current efforts appear to
Peter Steinmann, Stone, Christopher M., Peter Steinmann (92572), Christopher M. Stone (461877), Fabrizio Tediosi (247282), Marcel Tanner (33894), Steinmann, Peter, Marcel Tanner, Tediosi, Fabrizio, Kastner, Randee J., Christopher M Stone, Fabrizio Tediosi, Randee J Kastner, Randee J. Kastner (811800), Tanner, Marcel   +14 more
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The impact of mass drug administration and long-lasting insecticidal net distribution on Wuchereria bancrofti infection in humans and mosquitoes: an observational study in northern Uganda. [PDF]

, 2011
BACKGROUND: Lymphatic filariasis (LF) in Uganda is caused by Wuchereria bancrofti and transmitted by anopheline mosquitoes. The mainstay of elimination has been annual mass drug administration (MDA) with ivermectin and albendazole, targeted to endemic ...
Ambrose Onapa, Opio, Tom, Tansy Edwards, Brooker, Simon, Kolaczinski, Jan H, Tom Opio, Ashton, Ruth A, Simon Brooker, Daniel J Kyabayinze, Jan H Kolaczinski, Kyabayinze, Daniel J, Ruth A Ashton, Onapa, Ambrose, Edwards, Tansy, Gabriel Matwale, Auma, Anna, Matwale, Gabriel, Anna Auma, Auma Anna, Edwards Tansy, Brooker Simon, Onapa Ambrose, Matwale Gabriel, Kyabayinze Daniel J, Kolaczinski Jan H, Ashton Ruth A, Opio Tom   +26 more
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Directly observed treatment increases drug compliance in lymphatic filariasis mass drug administration

Universa Medicina, 2016
Backgroud. Mass drug administration (MDA) has been one of the strategies for lymphatic filariasis elimination. Since the start of implementation in 2011 in Pekalongan, no study on MDA acceptability has yet been done.
Tutik Ida Rosanti, Sugeng Juwono Mardihusodo, Wayan T. Artama   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of a high-speed MALDI-triple quadrupole mass spectrometric method for the determination of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) in oral fluid [PDF]

, 2016
3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, ecstasy) is still a widely used illicit designer drug and its detection in different matrices is of major importance for forensic purposes (e.g.
Hysek, Cédric M, Cedric M. Hysek, Poetzsch, Michael, Hysek, Cédric M., Liechti, Matthias E, Steuer, Andrea E, Andrea E. Steuer, Thomas Kraemer, Steuer, Andrea E., Matthias E. Liechti, Liechti, Matthias E., Kraemer, Thomas, Michael Poetzsch   +12 more
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Cost and community acceptability of enhanced antibiotic distribution approaches for trachoma in the Republic of South Sudan: enhancing the A in SAFE (ETAS) study protocol

BMC Ophthalmology, 2023
Background The World Health Organization targeted trachoma for global elimination as a public health problem by 2030. Reaching elimination thresholds by the year 2030 in the Republic of South Sudan will be a considerable challenge, as the country ...
Angelia M. Sanders, Samuel Makoy, Andrew R. Deathe, Stephen Ohidor, Timothy C. Jesudason, Andrew W. Nute, Patrick Odongi, Lochebe Boniface, Stella Abuba, Alexis S. Delahaut, Wilson Sebit, James Niquette, E. Kelly Callahan, Damian G. Walker, Scott D. Nash   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Emerging antihelminthic drug resistance: Implications for mass drug administration program

One Health Bulletin
Soil transmitted helminth infections and lymphatic diseases are significant neglected tropical diseases that pose public health challenges in both low and middle economic populations.
Agarwal Harshita, Rajkumari Nonika
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Persistence of onchocerciasis in villages in Enugu and Ogun states in Nigeria following many rounds of mass distribution of ivermectin

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2022
Background Onchocerciasis is endemic in most local government areas (LGAs) in Enugu and Ogun states. Most meso- and hyper-endemic LGAs have received many rounds of ivermectin mass drug administration (MDA).
Uwem F. Ekpo, Obiora A. Eneanya, Edith N. Nwankwo, Islamiat Y. Soneye, Gary J. Weil, Peter U. Fischer, Obioma C. Nwaorgu   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Feasibility and safety of mass drug coadministration with azithromycin and ivermectin for the control of neglected tropical diseases: a single-arm intervention trial

The Lancet Global Health, 2018
Summary: Background: Mass drug administration has made a major contribution to the public health control of several important neglected tropical diseases.
Lucia Romani, PhD, Michael Marks, PhD, Oliver Sokana, MPH, Titus Nasi, MCH, Bakaai Kamoriki, Handan Wand, PhD, Margot J Whitfeld, FACD, Daniel Engelman, FRACP, Anthony W Solomon, FRCP, Andrew C Steer, ProfPhD, John M Kaldor, ProfPhD   +10 more
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Entomological impact of mass administration of ivermectin and dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine in The Gambia: a cluster-randomized controlled trial

Parasites & Vectors, 2022
Background Vector control interventions in sub-Saharan Africa rely on insecticide-treated nets and indoor residual spraying. Insecticide resistance, poor coverage of interventions, poor quality nets and changes in vector behavior threaten the ...
Harouna M. Soumare, Edgard Diniba Dabira, Muhammed M. Camara, Lamin Jadama, Pa Modou Gaye, Sainey Kanteh, Ebrima A. Jawara, Amie Kolleh Njie, Fatou Sanneh, Mamadou Ousman Ndiath, Steven W. Lindsay, Bakary Conteh, Sainey Ceesay, Nuredin Mohammed, Michael Ooko, John Bradley, Chris Drakeley, Annette Erhart, Teun Bousema, Umberto D’Alessandro   +19 more
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Human schistosomiasis in the post mass drug administration era [PDF]

The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2017
Profound changes are occurring in the epidemiology of schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease caused by a chronic infection with parasitic helminths of the genus Schistosoma. Schistosomiasis currently affects 240 million people worldwide, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. The advent and proliferation of mass drug administration (MDA) programmes using
Francisca, Mutapi, Rick, Maizels, Alan, Fenwick, Mark, Woolhouse   +3 more
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