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1. Fifteen years of programme implementation for the elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis in Ghana: Impact of MDA on immunoparasitological indicators.

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Nana-Kwadwo Biritwum, Dziedzom K de Souza, Benjamin Marfo, Samuel Odoom, Bright Alomatu, Odame Asiedu, Abednego Yeboah, Tei E Hervie, Ernest O Mensah, Paul Yikpotey, Joseph B Koroma, David Molyneux, Moses J Bockarie, and John O Gyapong

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Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine, RC955-962, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270
Published
2017
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2. Fifteen years of programme implementation for the elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis in Ghana: Impact of MDA on immunoparasitological indicators

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Moses J. Bockarie, Samuel Odoom, Nana-Kwadwo Biritwum, David H. Molyneux, Odame Asiedu, Paul Yikpotey, Ernest O. Mensah, Dziedzom K. de Souza, Tei E. Hervie, Joseph B. Koroma, John O. Gyapong, Abednego Yeboah, Bright Alomatu, and Benjamin Marfo

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0301 basic medicine, Endemic Diseases, National Health Programs, Nematoda, Physiology, Economics, Social Sciences, medicine.disease_cause, Ghana, Geographical Locations, 0302 clinical medicine, Prevalence, Medicine and Health Sciences, Medicine, Public and Occupational Health, Lymphatic filariasis, Anthelmintics, wa_30, lcsh:Public aspects of medicine, wa_108, Body Fluids, Filariasis, Viewpoints, Wuchereria bancrofti, Blood, Infectious Diseases, Helminth Infections, Mass Drug Administration, Anatomy, Wuchereria, Neglected Tropical Diseases, wc_880, lcsh:Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine, Infectious Disease Control, lcsh:RC955-962, 030231 tropical medicine, MEDLINE, wa_395, Elephantiasis, Albendazole, wa_110, 03 medical and health sciences, Elephantiasis, Filarial, Environmental health, Parasitic Diseases, Animals, Humans, Mass drug administration, Ivermectin, business.industry, Programme implementation, Lymphatic Filariasis, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Organisms, Biology and Life Sciences, lcsh:RA1-1270, Wuchereria Bancrofti, medicine.disease, Tropical Diseases, Invertebrates, 030104 developmental biology, People and Places, Africa, business, Zoology, Entomology, Finance
Published
2017

3. Persistent 'hotspots' of lymphatic filariasis microfilaraemia despite 14 years of mass drug administration in Ghana

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Samuel Odoom, Benjamin G. Koudou, Sven Gudmund Hinderaker, Abednego Yeboah, Ernest O. Mensah, Joseph B. Koroma, Benjamin Marfo, Paul Yikpotey, Serge Ade, Odame Asiedu, Edward Tei Hervie, Anthony Reid, Nana-Kwadwo Biritwum, Bright Alomatu, and Kudakwashe C. Takarinda

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0301 basic medicine, Veterinary medicine, Endemic Diseases, 030231 tropical medicine, Microfilaria, Ghana, Drug Administration Schedule, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Elephantiasis, Filarial, medicine, Disease Transmission, Infectious, Prevalence, Animals, Humans, skin and connective tissue diseases, Mass drug administration, Microfilariae, Lymphatic filariasis, business.industry, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Ecological study, General Medicine, medicine.disease, 030104 developmental biology, Infectious Diseases, Filaricides, Treatment Outcome, Antigens, Helminth, Mass Drug Administration, Parasitology, Health Services Research, business, Demography
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Among the 216 districts in Ghana, 98 were declared endemic for lymphatic filariasis in 1999 after mapping. Pursuing the goal of elimination, WHO recommends annual treatment using mass drugs administration (MDA) for at least 5 years. MDA was started in the country in 2001 and reached national coverage in 2006. By 2014, 69 districts had 'stopped-MDA' (after passing the transmission assessment survey) while 29 others remained with persistent microfilaraemia (mf) prevalence (≥1%) despite more than 11 years of MDA and were classified as 'hotspots'. An ecological study was carried out to compare baseline mf prevalence and anti-microfilaria interventions between hotspot and stopped-MDA districts. Baseline mf prevalence was significantly higher in hotspots than stopped-MDA districts (p

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2016

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