Progress towards lymphatic filariasis elimination in Ghana from 2000-2016: Analysis of microfilaria prevalence data from 430 communities

• Nana Kwadwo Biritwum ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nana Kwadwo Biritwum, Kwadwo K. Frempong

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: nkadbiritwum@gmail.com (NKB); kfrempong@noguchi.ug.edu.gh (KKF)

  Affiliation Neglected Tropical Disease Programme, Ghana Health Services (GHS), Accra, Ghana

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5967-5676

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• Kwadwo K. Frempong ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nana Kwadwo Biritwum, Kwadwo K. Frempong

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

  * E-mail: nkadbiritwum@gmail.com (NKB); kfrempong@noguchi.ug.edu.gh (KKF)

  Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Department of Public Health, Rotterdam, Netherlands

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• Suzanne Verver,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Samuel Odoom,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Neglected Tropical Disease Programme, Ghana Health Services (GHS), Accra, Ghana

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• Bright Alomatu,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Neglected Tropical Disease Programme, Ghana Health Services (GHS), Accra, Ghana

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• Odame Asiedu,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Neglected Tropical Disease Programme, Ghana Health Services (GHS), Accra, Ghana

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• Periklis Kontoroupis,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Abednego Yeboah,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Neglected Tropical Disease Programme, Ghana Health Services (GHS), Accra, Ghana

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• Edward Tei Hervie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Neglected Tropical Disease Programme, Ghana Health Services (GHS), Accra, Ghana

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• Benjamin Marfo,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Neglected Tropical Disease Programme, Ghana Health Services (GHS), Accra, Ghana

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• Daniel A. Boakye,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

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• Sake J. de Vlas,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

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• John O. Gyapong,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, University of Health and Allied Science, Ho, Ghana

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8415-1468

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• Wilma A. Stolk

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

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