Alternative approaches for monitoring and evaluation of lymphatic filariasis following mass drug treatment with ivermectin, diethylcarbamazine and albendazole in East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea

• Krufinta Bun,

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

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Center for Global Health and Disease, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Benedict Mode,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Provincial Health Department, Kokopo, East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea

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• Melinda Susapu,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Papua New Guinea Department of Health, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

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• Joyceline Salo,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Goroka, Papua New Guinea

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• Catherine Bjerum,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Center for Global Health and Disease, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Michael Payne,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Center for Global Health and Disease, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Daniel Tisch,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Center for Global Health and Disease, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Makoto Sekihara,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

  Affiliation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Tokyo, Japan

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• Emanuele Giorgi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Centre for Health Informatics, Computing and Statistics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

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• Gary J. Weil,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Peter U. Fischer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Leanne Robinson,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Moses Laman,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Goroka, Papua New Guinea

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• Christopher L. King

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cxk21@case.edu

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Center for Global Health and Disease, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3873-7860

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