Lessons from lymphatic filariasis elimination and the challenges of post-elimination surveillance in China
Abstract Background The Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF) was launched in response to the call proposed at the 50th World Health Assembly. The goal of the GPELF is to ensure that all the countries where the disease is endemic would have been transmission-free or would have e...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-08-01
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| Series: | Infectious Diseases of Poverty |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40249-019-0578-9 |