The safety of double- and triple-drug community mass drug administration for lymphatic filariasis: A multicenter, open-label, cluster-randomized study.
<h4>Background</h4>The Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF) provides antifilarial medications to hundreds of millions of people annually to treat filarial infections and prevent elephantiasis. Recent trials have shown that a single-dose, triple-drug treatment (iverm...
Main Authors: | Gary J Weil, Joshua Bogus, Michael Christian, Christine Dubray, Yenny Djuardi, Peter U Fischer, Charles W Goss, Myra Hardy, Purushothaman Jambulingam, Christopher L King, Vijesh Sridhar Kuttiat, Kaliannagounder Krishnamoorthy, Moses Laman, Jean Frantz Lemoine, Katiuscia K O'Brian, Leanne J Robinson, Josaia Samuela, Kenneth B Schechtman, Anita Sircar, Adinarayanan Srividya, Andrew C Steer, Taniawati Supali, Swaminathan Subramanian, DOLF IDA Safety Study Group |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2019-06-01
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Series: | PLoS Medicine |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002839 |
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