Onchocerciasis: The Pre-control Association between Prevalence of Palpable Nodules and Skin Microfilariae

• Luc E. Coffeng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Luc E. Coffeng, Sébastien D. S. Pion

  * E-mail: l.coffeng@erasmusmc.nl

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Sébastien D. S. Pion ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Luc E. Coffeng, Sébastien D. S. Pion

  Affiliation UMI 233, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), University of Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France

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• Simon O'Hanlon,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine (St Mary's Campus), Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Simon Cousens,

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Adenike O. Abiose,

  Affiliation Sightcare International, Secretariat Main Office, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

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• Peter U. Fischer,

  Affiliations Washington University School of Medicine, Infectious Disease Division, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

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• Jan H. F. Remme,

  Affiliation Independent Consultant, Ornex, France

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• K. Yankum Dadzie,

  Affiliation Independent Consultant, Accra, Ghana

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• Michele E. Murdoch,

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Watford General Hospital, Watford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

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• Sake J. de Vlas,

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• María-Gloria Basáñez,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine (St Mary's Campus), Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Wilma A. Stolk ,

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Michel Boussinesq

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation UMI 233, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), University of Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France

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