Detecting and confirming residual hotspots of lymphatic filariasis transmission in American Samoa 8 years after stopping mass drug administration

• Colleen L. Lau ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: colleen.lau@anu.edu.au

  Affiliations Department of Global Health, Research School of Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, Children’s Health and Environment Program, Child Health Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8288-4169

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• Sarah Sheridan,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Global Health, Research School of Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

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• Stephanie Ryan,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine and College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

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• Maureen Roineau,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine and College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

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• Athena Andreosso,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine and College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

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• Saipale Fuimaono,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, American Samoa Department of Health, Pago Pago, American Samoa

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• Joseph Tufa,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, American Samoa Department of Health, Pago Pago, American Samoa

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• Patricia M. Graves

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine and College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

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