Persistent transmission of soil-transmitted helminths despite 16 years of uninterrupted Mebendazole- and ivermectin-based preventive chemotherapy in the Lomie Health District (East Region, Cameroon): The emergency of complementary control strategies

• Arnauld Efon-Ekangouo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Arnauld Efon-Ekangouo, Virtue F. De-Gaulle

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

  * E-mail: Arnauld.efon@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon, Higher Institute of Scientific and Medical Research (ISM), Yaoundé, Cameroon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3884-1468

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• Virtue F. De-Gaulle ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Arnauld Efon-Ekangouo, Virtue F. De-Gaulle

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Yannick Emalio,

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

  Affiliations Higher Institute of Scientific and Medical Research (ISM), Yaoundé, Cameroon, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Verner N. Orish,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Unversity of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho Volta Region, Ghana

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• Linda Djune-Yemeli,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon, Higher Institute of Scientific and Medical Research (ISM), Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Michèle L. Simo-Simo,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Higher Institute of Scientific and Medical Research (ISM), Yaoundé, Cameroon, Research Centre for Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinical Research, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

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• Martine A. Tsasse,

  Roles Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Higher Institute of Scientific and Medical Research (ISM), Yaoundé, Cameroon, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

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• Laetitia Mbakam,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Higher Institute of Scientific and Medical Research (ISM), Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Hugues C. Nana-Djeunga,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Higher Institute of Scientific and Medical Research (ISM), Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Joseph Kamgno

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Higher Institute of Scientific and Medical Research (ISM), Yaoundé, Cameroon, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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