Onchocerca volvulus infection and serological prevalence, ocular onchocerciasis and parasite transmission in northern and central Togo after decades of Simulium damnosum s.l. vector control and mass drug administration of ivermectin

• Kossi Komlan ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ KK and SPV are equally contributing first authors of this work.

  Affiliation Onchocerciasis Reference Laboratory, National Institute of Hygiene, Sokodé, Togo

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• Patrick S. Vossberg ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ KK and SPV are equally contributing first authors of this work.

  Affiliation Institute for Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, University Clinics, Tübingen, Germany

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• Richard G. Gantin,

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

  Affiliations Onchocerciasis Reference Laboratory, National Institute of Hygiene, Sokodé, Togo, Institute for Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, University Clinics, Tübingen, Germany

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• Tchalim Solim,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Campus, Université de Lomé, Lomé, Togo

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• Francois Korbmacher,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Institute for Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, University Clinics, Tübingen, Germany

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• Méba Banla,

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

  Affiliation Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Campus, Université de Lomé, Lomé, Togo

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• Koffi Padjoudoum,

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

  Affiliation National Onchocerciasis Control Program, Kara, Togo

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• Potchoziou Karabou,

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

  Affiliation National Onchocerciasis Control Program, Kara, Togo

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• Carsten Köhler,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, University Clinics, Tübingen, Germany

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• Peter T. Soboslay

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

  * E-mail: peter.soboslay@uni-tuebingen.de

  Affiliations Onchocerciasis Reference Laboratory, National Institute of Hygiene, Sokodé, Togo, Institute for Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, University Clinics, Tübingen, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3215-7577

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