Development and validation of an Onchocerca ochengi adult male worm gerbil model for macrofilaricidal drug screening

• Fidelis Cho-Ngwa ,

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

  * E-mail: fidelis.cho@ubuea.cm

  Affiliation ANDI Centre of Excellence for Onchocerciasis Drug Research, Biotechnology Unit, Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8529-8771

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• Glory Enjong Mbah,

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

  Affiliation ANDI Centre of Excellence for Onchocerciasis Drug Research, Biotechnology Unit, Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

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• Rene Bilingwe Ayiseh,

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

  Affiliation ANDI Centre of Excellence for Onchocerciasis Drug Research, Biotechnology Unit, Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

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• Emmanuel Menang Ndi,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation ANDI Centre of Excellence for Onchocerciasis Drug Research, Biotechnology Unit, Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

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• Elvis Monya,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation ANDI Centre of Excellence for Onchocerciasis Drug Research, Biotechnology Unit, Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

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• Irene Memeh Tumanjong,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation ANDI Centre of Excellence for Onchocerciasis Drug Research, Biotechnology Unit, Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

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• Evans Ngandung Mainsah,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation ANDI Centre of Excellence for Onchocerciasis Drug Research, Biotechnology Unit, Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

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• Judy Sakanari,

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

  Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Sara Lustigman

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

  Affiliation Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York City, New York, United States of America

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