Evaluation of sampling strategies for assessing lymphatic filariasis endemic status of a non-MDA district in South India

• Adinarayanan Srividya ,

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

  ¶‡ Lead authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation ICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Gorimedu, Puducherry, India

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• Rajendran Dhanalakshmi ,

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

  ¶‡ Lead authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation ICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Gorimedu, Puducherry, India

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• Raja Jeyapal Dinesh ,

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

  * E-mail: dinsha85@gmail.com

  Affiliation ICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Gorimedu, Puducherry, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3359-3039

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• Palappurath Maliyakkal Azad,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation ICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Gorimedu, Puducherry, India

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• Ramalingam Balasubramaniyan,

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

  Affiliation ICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Gorimedu, Puducherry, India

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• Sivaprakasam T. Selvavinayagam,

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

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Palani Sampath,

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

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Masilamani Senthilkumar,

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

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Dhandapani Bharani Kumar,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Brindha Balan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Gorimedu, Puducherry, India

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• Philip Raj Abraham,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation ICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Gorimedu, Puducherry, India

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• Ashwani Kumar,

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

  Affiliation ICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Gorimedu, Puducherry, India

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• Swaminathan Subramanian,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Gorimedu, Puducherry, India

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• Manju Rahi

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

  Affiliation ICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Gorimedu, Puducherry, India

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