Elimination of Onchocerciasis from Mexico.

Elimination of Onchocerciasis from Mexico.

BACKGROUND:Mexico is one of the six countries formerly endemic for onchocerciasis in Latin America. Transmission has been interrupted in the three endemic foci of that country and mass drug distribution has ceased. Three years after mass drug distribution ended, post-treatment surveillance (PTS) sur...

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Main Authors:	Mario A Rodríguez-Pérez, Nadia A Fernández-Santos, María E Orozco-Algarra, José A Rodríguez-Atanacio, Alfredo Domínguez-Vázquez, Kristel B Rodríguez-Morales, Olga Real-Najarro, Francisco G Prado-Velasco, Eddie W Cupp, Frank O Richards, Hassan K Hassan, Jesús F González-Roldán, Pablo A Kuri-Morales, Thomas R Unnasch
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:	PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:	http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4498594?pdf=render

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