Impact of long-term treatment of onchocerciasis with ivermectin in Kaduna State, Nigeria: first evidence of the potential for elimination in the operational area of the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control

Hailemariam Tekle, Afework; Elhassan, Elizabeth; Isiyaku, Sunday; Amazigo, Uche; R. Bush, Simon; Noma, Mounkaïla; Cousens, Simon; Abiose, A; Remme, J

doi:10.1186/1756-3305-5-28

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Impact of long-term treatment of onchocerciasis with ivermectin in Kaduna State, Nigeria: first evidence of the potential for elimination in the operational area of the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control

Published in Parasites & Vectors • Feb 7, 2012

Authors:

Afework Hailemariam Tekle

Elizabeth Elhassan

Sunday Isiyaku

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Onchocerciasis can be effectively controlled as a public health problem by annual mass drug administration of ivermectin, but it was not known if ivermectin treatment in the long term would be able to achieve elimination of onchocerciasis infection and interruption of transmission in end...

Subject

Onchocerciasis

Ivermectin

Onchocerca volvulus

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