TY - JOUR
T1 - Diagnostic tools for filariasis elimination programs
AU - Weil, Gary J.
AU - Ramzy, Reda M.R.
N1 - Funding Information:
This article is based on a working paper presented at the Sixth Meeting of the Technical Advisory Group on the Global Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis, World Health Organization, Geneva, September 2005. The authors’ filariasis research is supported in part by NIH grant AI 065715.
PY - 2007/2
Y1 - 2007/2
N2 - The ambitious and exciting Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF) is largely based on a strategy of mass drug administration (MDA) of repeated rounds of antifilarial medications to endemic populations around the world. Diagnostic tools are important to GPELF because they affect decisions regarding where to distribute MDA, how to measure its effects, how to define targets and endpoints for stopping MDA, and how to monitor populations for possible resurgence of filariasis transmission following suspension of MDA. This article reviews available diagnostic tests for filariasis and their potential use as tools for different phases of filariasis elimination programs.
AB - The ambitious and exciting Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF) is largely based on a strategy of mass drug administration (MDA) of repeated rounds of antifilarial medications to endemic populations around the world. Diagnostic tools are important to GPELF because they affect decisions regarding where to distribute MDA, how to measure its effects, how to define targets and endpoints for stopping MDA, and how to monitor populations for possible resurgence of filariasis transmission following suspension of MDA. This article reviews available diagnostic tests for filariasis and their potential use as tools for different phases of filariasis elimination programs.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.pt.2006.12.001
DO - 10.1016/j.pt.2006.12.001
M3 - Review article
C2 - 17174604
AN - SCOPUS:33846690138
SN - 1471-4922
VL - 23
SP - 78
EP - 82
JO - Trends in Parasitology
JF - Trends in Parasitology
IS - 2
ER -