Serious limitations of the current strategy to control Soil-Transmitted Helminths and added value of Ivermectin/Albendazole mass administration: A population-based observational study in Cameroon

• Linda Djune-Yemeli ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Linda Djune-Yemeli, Hugues C. Nana-Djeunga

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Centre for Research on Filariasis and other Tropical Diseases (CRFilMT), Yaoundé, Cameroon, Molecular Diagnosis Research Group, Biotechnology Centre-University of Yaoundé I (BTC-UY-I), Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Hugues C. Nana-Djeunga ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Linda Djune-Yemeli, Hugues C. Nana-Djeunga

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

  Affiliations Centre for Research on Filariasis and other Tropical Diseases (CRFilMT), Yaoundé, Cameroon, Parasitology and Ecology Laboratory, Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4496-6048

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• Cédric G. Lenou-Nanga,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Research on Filariasis and other Tropical Diseases (CRFilMT), Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Cyrille Donfo-Azafack,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Research on Filariasis and other Tropical Diseases (CRFilMT), Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• André Domche,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Research on Filariasis and other Tropical Diseases (CRFilMT), Yaoundé, Cameroon, Parasitology and Ecology Laboratory, Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Floribert Fossuo-Thotchum,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Research on Filariasis and other Tropical Diseases (CRFilMT), Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Yannick Niamsi-Emalio,

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

  Affiliation Centre for Research on Filariasis and other Tropical Diseases (CRFilMT), Yaoundé, Cameroon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5766-6255

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• Francine Ntoumi,

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

  Affiliations Fondation Congolaise pour la Recherche Médicale, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, Marien Ngouabi University, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo

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• Joseph Kamgno

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kamgno@crfilmt.org

  Affiliations Centre for Research on Filariasis and other Tropical Diseases (CRFilMT), Yaoundé, Cameroon, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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