Dosing pole recommendations for lymphatic filariasis elimination: A height-weight quantile regression modeling approach.
<h4>Background</h4>The World Health Organization (WHO) currently recommends height or age-based dosing as alternatives to weight-based dosing for mass drug administration lymphatic filariasis (LF) elimination programs. The goals of our study were to compare these alternative dosing strat...
Main Authors: | Charles W Goss, Katiuscia O'Brian, Christine Dubray, Peter U Fischer, Myra Hardy, Purushothaman Jambulingam, Christopher L King, Moses Laman, Jean Frantz Lemoine, Leanne J Robinson, Josaia Samuela, Swaminathan Subramanian, Taniawati Supali, Gary J Weil, Kenneth B Schechtman |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2019-07-01
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Series: | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007541 |
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