Potential strategies for strengthening surveillance of lymphatic filariasis in American Samoa after mass drug administration: Reducing ‘number needed to test’ by targeting older age groups, hotspots, and household members of infected persons

• Colleen L. Lau ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: colleen.lau@anu.edu.au

  Affiliation Research School of Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8288-4169

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• Meru Sheel,

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

  Affiliation Research School of Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5453-070X

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• Katherine Gass,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Support Center, Task Force for Global Heath, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2084-8039

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• Saipale Fuimaono,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation American Samoa Department of Health, Pago Pago, American Samoa

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• Michael C. David,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medicine and Public Health, The University of Newcastle, Gosford, Australia

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• Kimberly Y. Won,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Sarah Sheridan,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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• Patricia M. Graves

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

  Affiliation College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5215-3901

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