Interruption of Infection Transmission in the Onchocerciasis Focus of Ecuador Leading to the Cessation of Ivermectin Distribution

• Raquel Lovato,

  Affiliation Ecuadorian Onchocerciasis Program, Ministerio de Salud Pública, Quito, Ecuador

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• Angel Guevara,

  Affiliation Centro de Biomedicina, Laboratorio de Parasitología Molecular, Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

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• Ronald Guderian,

  Affiliation Hospital Vozandes, Quito, Ecuador

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• Roberto Proaño,

  Affiliation Ecuadorian Onchocerciasis Program, Ministerio de Salud Pública, Quito, Ecuador

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• Thomas Unnasch,

  Affiliation GHIDR Program, Department of Global Health, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

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• Hipatia Criollo,

  Affiliation Centro de Biomedicina, Laboratorio de Parasitología Molecular, Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

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• Hassan K. Hassan,

  Affiliation GHIDR Program, Department of Global Health, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

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• Charles D. Mackenzie

  * E-mail: mackenz8@msu.edu, tropmed@me.com

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiology and Diagnostic Investigation, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

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