Semi-annual and annual mass drug administration of diethylcarbamazine and albendazole are equally effective regimens for eliminating lymphatic filariasis in Papua New Guinea

• Michael C. Payne,

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

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

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• Nelly Sanuku,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Maprik, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea

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• Brooke E. Mancuso,

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

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

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• Yao-Chieh Cheng,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliations Center for Global Health and Diseases, Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Maprik, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea

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• Gary J. Weil,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Peter U. Fischer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Moses Laman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  Affiliation Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Maprik, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea

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• Leanne J. Robinson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Maprik, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia

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• Daniel J. Tisch,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Christopher L. King

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

  * E-mail: cxk21@case.edu

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

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

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