The significant scale up and success of Transmission Assessment Surveys 'TAS' for endgame surveillance of lymphatic filariasis in Bangladesh: One step closer to the elimination goal of 2020

A. K. M. Shamsuzzaman; Rouseli Haq; Mohammad J. Karim; Motasim B. Azad; A. S. M. Sultan Mahmood; Abul Khair; Muhammad Mujibur Rahman; Israt Hafiz; K. D. Ramaiah; Charles D. Mackenzie; Hayley E. Mableson; Louise A. Kelly-Hope

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0005340

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The significant scale up and success of Transmission Assessment Surveys 'TAS' for endgame surveillance of lymphatic filariasis in Bangladesh: One step closer to the elimination goal of 2020

A. K. M. Shamsuzzaman ,

Contributed equally to this work with: A. K. M. Shamsuzzaman, Rouseli Haq

Affiliation Filariasis Elimination and STH Control Program, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Communicable Disease Control, Directorate General of Health Services, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Rouseli Haq ,

Contributed equally to this work with: A. K. M. Shamsuzzaman, Rouseli Haq

Affiliation Filariasis Elimination and STH Control Program, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Communicable Disease Control, Directorate General of Health Services, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Mohammad J. Karim,

Affiliation Filariasis Elimination and STH Control Program, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Communicable Disease Control, Directorate General of Health Services, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Motasim B. Azad,

Affiliation Filariasis Elimination and STH Control Program, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Communicable Disease Control, Directorate General of Health Services, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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A. S. M. Sultan Mahmood,

Affiliation Filariasis Elimination and STH Control Program, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Communicable Disease Control, Directorate General of Health Services, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Abul Khair,

Affiliation Filariasis Elimination and STH Control Program, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Communicable Disease Control, Directorate General of Health Services, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Muhammad Mujibur Rahman,

Affiliation Filariasis Elimination and STH Control Program, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Communicable Disease Control, Directorate General of Health Services, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Israt Hafiz,

Affiliation Filariasis Elimination and STH Control Program, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Communicable Disease Control, Directorate General of Health Services, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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K. D. Ramaiah,

Affiliation Consultant on Lymphatic Filariasis, Tagore Nagar, Pondicherry, India
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Charles D. Mackenzie,

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Department of Pathobiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
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Hayley E. Mableson,

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Louise A. Kelly-Hope

* E-mail: Louise.Kelly-Hope@LSTMed.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3330-7629

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The significant scale up and success of Transmission Assessment Surveys 'TAS' for endgame surveillance of lymphatic filariasis in Bangladesh: One step closer to the elimination goal of 2020

A. K. M. Shamsuzzaman,
Rouseli Haq,
Mohammad J. Karim,
Motasim B. Azad,
A. S. M. Sultan Mahmood,
Abul Khair,
Muhammad Mujibur Rahman,
Israt Hafiz,
K. D. Ramaiah,
Charles D. Mackenzie

Published: January 31, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005340

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