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The control of the human filariases
1The Wellcome Trust Centre for the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Abstract:
There is a growing momentum for the global control and elimination of the major human filariases as public health problems worldwide. The renewed optimism for undertaking this objective reflects the development of simple and potentially cost-effective strategies for mass drug delivery in onchocerciasis and the availability of new extremely effective drug combinations to treat infection, and new methods of morbidity control in lymphatic filariasis. It also reflects the development and current availability of very effective diagnostic, surveillance and control modeling tools for both parasites. Control programming will also be aided by our greater understanding of the biology of transmission, host immunity and disease pathogenesis.
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