Can mass drug administration alone eliminate lymphatic filariasis in areas of Indonesia with zoophilic Brugia malayi?

Taniawati Supali; Yenny Djuardi; Elisa Iskandar; Noviani Sugianto; Rahmat Alfian; Yossi Destani; Emanuele Giorgi; Gary J. Weil; Peter U. Fischer

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0014501

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Can mass drug administration alone eliminate lymphatic filariasis in areas of Indonesia with zoophilic Brugia malayi?

Taniawati Supali ,

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

* E-mail: Taniawati@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1209-402X

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Yenny Djuardi,

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
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Elisa Iskandar,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
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Noviani Sugianto,

Roles Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
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Rahmat Alfian,

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
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Yossi Destani,

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
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Emanuele Giorgi,

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Centre of Health Informatics, Computing, and Statistics, Lancaster University Medical School, Lancaster, United Kingdom
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Gary J. Weil,

Roles 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, Investigation, Supervision, 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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Can mass drug administration alone eliminate lymphatic filariasis in areas of Indonesia with zoophilic Brugia malayi?

Taniawati Supali,
Yenny Djuardi,
Elisa Iskandar,
Noviani Sugianto,
Rahmat Alfian,
Yossi Destani,
Emanuele Giorgi,
Gary J. Weil,
Peter U. Fischer

Published: July 14, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0014501

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