Impact of repeated annual community directed treatment with ivermectin on loiasis parasitological indicators in Cameroon: Implications for onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis elimination in areas co-endemic with Loa loa in Africa

• Samuel Wanji ,

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

  * E-mail: swanji@yahoo.fr

  Affiliations Parasites and Vector Biology research unit (PAVBRU), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment (REFOTDE), Buea, Cameroon

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0022-8366

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• Winston Patrick Chounna Ndongmo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Parasites and Vector Biology research unit (PAVBRU), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment (REFOTDE), Buea, Cameroon

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• Fanny Fri Fombad,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Parasites and Vector Biology research unit (PAVBRU), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment (REFOTDE), Buea, Cameroon

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• Jonas Arnaud Kengne-Ouafo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Parasites and Vector Biology research unit (PAVBRU), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment (REFOTDE), Buea, Cameroon

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• Abdel Jelil Njouendou,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliations Parasites and Vector Biology research unit (PAVBRU), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment (REFOTDE), Buea, Cameroon

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• Yolande Flore Longang Tchounkeu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision

  Affiliation Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment (REFOTDE), Buea, Cameroon

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• Benjamin Koudou,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases (incorporating the Lymphatic Filariasis Support Centre), Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Moses Bockarie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases (incorporating the Lymphatic Filariasis Support Centre), Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Grace Fobi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation African Program for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

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• Jean Baptiste Roungou,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation African Program for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

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• Peter A. Enyong

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Parasites and Vector Biology research unit (PAVBRU), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment (REFOTDE), Buea, Cameroon

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