Designing antifilarial drug trials using clinical trial simulators

Drugs for filariases are under development and clinical trial simulators could help to inform the design of clinical trials. Here, Walker et al. use an individual-based onchocerciasis transmission model to project trial outcomes of a hypothetical macrofilaricidal drug, resolving key design choices.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Martin Walker, Jonathan I. D. Hamley, Philip Milton, Frédéric Monnot, Belén Pedrique, Maria-Gloria Basáñez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16442-y