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ArticleEuropean journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology2017

Molecular xenomonitoring (MX) and transmission assessment survey (TAS) of lymphatic filariasis elimination in two villages, Menoufyia Governorate, Egypt.

M A Moustafa, M M I Salamah, H S Thabet, R A Tawfik, M M Mehrez, D M Hamdy

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Article in European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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  2. Evaluating the Diagnostic Test Accuracy of Molecular Xenomonitoring Methods for Characterizing Community Burden of Lymphatic Filariasis.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021
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M A MoustafaDepartment of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Abbassia, 11566, Cairo, Egypt.
M M I SalamahDepartment of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Abbassia, 11566, Cairo, Egypt.
H S ThabetDepartment of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Abbassia, 11566, Cairo, Egypt.
R A TawfikDepartment of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Abbassia, 11566, Cairo, Egypt. ranya_t@yahoo.com.
M M MehrezGeneral Department for Malaria, Filariasis & Leishmaniasis Control, Endemic Diseases Control Sector, Ministry of Health and Population, Cairo, Egypt.
D M HamdyDepartment of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Abbassia, 11566, Cairo, Egypt.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is focally endemic in Egypt where the female mosquito, Culex pipiens, is responsible for its transmission. The aim of the study was to investigate the impact of implementation of the 13th round of MDA in two Egyptian villages in the Menoufyia Governorate area after failing the transmission assessment survey (TAS) in 2005 using two methods, and to decide whether it is safe to stop MDA in these, as well as in similar implementation units (IUs). To achieve this aim, both the immunochromatographic card test (ICT) and molecular xenomonitoring (MX) techniques were employed. A cross-sectional study was carried out in the villages in 2014 with two sections: Section (1): a school-based survey where all the primary school entrants (6-7) years of age were tested by ICT. Section (2): a mosquito-based survey where a total of 152 mosquito pools collected from Samalay and 167 from Kafr El-Tarainah were tested for the presence of the gDNA of Wuchereria bancrofti microfilaria by real-time PCR assays. The results revealed that all primary school children in both villages were 100% negative for antigenemia. Also, all mosquito pools were 100% negative for the microfilarial gDNA.

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Mass Drug AdministrationAnimalsChildChromatography, AffinityCross-Sectional StudiesDisease Transmission, InfectiousEgyptElephantiasis, FilarialFemaleFilaricidesHumansMaleMosquito VectorsReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionSurveys and QuestionnairesWuchereria bancroftiFilaricides

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