Systematic sampling of adults as a sensitive means of detecting persistence of lymphatic filariasis following mass drug administration in Sri Lanka

• Ramakrishna U. Rao ,

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

  * E-mail: rrao@wustl.edu

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3710-4642

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• Sandhya D. Samarasekera,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Anti-Filariasis Campaign, Ministry of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine, Colombo, Sri Lanka

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• Kumara C. Nagodavithana,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Anti-Filariasis Campaign, Ministry of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine, Colombo, Sri Lanka

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• Manjula W. Punchihewa,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Visualization

  Affiliation Regional Anti-Filariasis Unit, Galle, Sri Lanka

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• Udaya S. B. Ranasinghe,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization

  Affiliation Anti-Filariasis Campaign, Ministry of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine, Colombo, Sri Lanka

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• Gary J. Weil

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6336-3824

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