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Impact of ivermectin on onchocerciasis transmission: assessing the empirical evidence that repeated ivermectin mass treatments may lead to elimination/eradication in West-Africa.

Borsboom GJ, Boatin BA, Nagelkerke NJ, Agoua H, Akpoboua KL, Alley EW, Bissan Y, Renz A, Yameogo L, Remme JH, Habbema JD.

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Final report of the Conference on the eradicability of Onchocerciasis.

Dadzie Y, Neira M, Hopkins D.

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Feasibility of onchocerciasis elimination with ivermectin treatment in endemic foci in Africa: first evidence from studies in Mali and Senegal.

Diawara L, Traoré MO, Badji A, Bissan Y, Doumbia K, Goita SF, Konaté L, Mounkoro K, Sarr MD, Seck AF, Toé L, Tourée S, Remme JH.

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Can ivermectin mass treatments eliminate onchocerciasis in Africa?

Winnen M, Plaisier AP, Alley ES, Nagelkerke NJ, van Oortmarssen G, Boatin BA, Habbema JD.

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Impact of combined large-scale ivermectin distribution and vector control on transmission of Onchocerca volvulus in the Niger basin, Guinea.

Guillet P, Sékétéli A, Alley ES, Agoua H, Boatin BA, Bissan Y, Akpoboua LK, Quillévéré D, Samba EM.

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The Mectizan Donation Program (MDP).

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Impact of long-term treatment of onchocerciasis with ivermectin in Ecuador: potential for elimination of infection.

Vieira JC, Cooper PJ, Lovato R, Mancero T, Rivera J, Proaño R, López AA, Guderian RH, Guzmán JR.

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[Control of onchocerciasis vectors in West Africa: description of the logistics adapted for a large-scale public health program]

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Large scale ivermectin distribution and its epidemiological consequences.

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The impact of ivermectin treatment alone and when in parallel with Simulium neavei elimination on onchocerciasis in Uganda.

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Impact of 3 years ivermectin treatment on onchocerciasis in Yanomami communities in the Brazilian Amazon.

Banic DM, Calvão-Brito RH, Marchon-Silva V, Schuertez JC, de Lima Pinheiro LR, da Costa Alves M, Têva A, Maia-Herzog M.

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Habbema JD, Plaisier AP, van Oortmarssen GJ, Remme J.

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Twenty-two years of blackfly control in the onchocerciasis control programme in West Africa.

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Impact of four years of large-scale ivermectin treatment with low therapeutic coverage on the transmission of Onchocerca volvulus in the Mbam valley focus, central Cameroon.

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After a decade of annual dose mass ivermectin treatment in Cameroon and Uganda, onchocerciasis transmission continues.

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Combined Utilisation of Rapid Assessment Procedures for Loiasis (RAPLOA) and Onchocerciasis (REA) in Rain forest Villages of Cameroon.

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Required duration of combined annual ivermectin treatment and vector control in the Onchocerciasis Control Programme in west Africa.

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Macrofilaricides and onchocerciasis control, mathematical modelling of the prospects for elimination.

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