Occurrence of Lymphatic Filariasis infection after 15 years of mass drug administration in two hotspot districts in the Upper East Region of Ghana

• Derrick Adu Mensah,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Linda Batsa Debrah,

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

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Peter Akosah Gyamfi,

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

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Faculty of Health Sciences, Garden City University College, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Abu Abudu Rahamani,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Vera Serwaa Opoku,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• John Boateng,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Prince Obeng,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Jubin Osei-Mensah,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Inge Kroidl,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical Center of the University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Munich, Germany

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• Ute Klarmann-Schulz,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Bonn-Cologne, Germany

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• Achim Hoerauf,

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

  Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Bonn-Cologne, Germany

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• Alexander Yaw Debrah

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

  * E-mail: yadebrah@yahoo.com

  Affiliation Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5721-0891

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