Sustaining Progress towards NTD Elimination: An Opportunity to Leverage Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination Programs to Interrupt Transmission of Soil-Transmitted Helminths

Arianna Rubin Means^{1

2}, Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir^{1

2}, Charles Mwandawiro³, David Rollinson², Julie Jacobson⁴, Tim Littlewood², Judd L Walson^{2

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
² The DeWorm3 Project, The Natural History Museum of London, London, United Kingdom.
³ Eastern and Southern Africa Centre of International Parasite Control, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁴ Neglected Tropical Disease Team, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
⁵ Departments of Global Health, Medicine, Pediatrics, and Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.

PMID: 27416062
PMCID: PMC4944981
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004737

Sustaining Progress towards NTD Elimination: An Opportunity to Leverage Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination Programs to Interrupt Transmission of Soil-Transmitted Helminths

Arianna Rubin Means et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016.

. 2016 Jul 14;10(7):e0004737.

doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004737. eCollection 2016 Jul.

Authors

Arianna Rubin Means^{1

2}, Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir^{1

2}, Charles Mwandawiro³, David Rollinson², Julie Jacobson⁴, Tim Littlewood², Judd L Walson^{2

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
² The DeWorm3 Project, The Natural History Museum of London, London, United Kingdom.
³ Eastern and Southern Africa Centre of International Parasite Control, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁴ Neglected Tropical Disease Team, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
⁵ Departments of Global Health, Medicine, Pediatrics, and Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.

PMID: 27416062
PMCID: PMC4944981
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004737

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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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