ArticleParasites & vectors2017
Skin snips have no role in programmatic evaluations for onchocerciasis elimination: a reply to Bottomley et al.
Article in Parasites & vectors, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- Assessing diagnostic accuracy of onchocerciasis rapid diagnostic tests using Bayesian latent class models.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- Performance of novel onchocerciasis rapid diagnostic tests in a field setting in South Sudan.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Impact assessment of onchocerciasis through lymphatic filariasis transmission assessment surveys using Ov-16 rapid diagnostic tests in Sierra Leone.Parasites & vectors · 2024Article
- Immunoinformatics Design and Assessment of a Multiepitope Antigen (OvMCBL02) for Onchocerciasis Diagnosis and Monitoring.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Tandem Use of OvMANE1 and Ov-16 ELISA Tests Increases the Sensitivity for the Diagnosis of Human Onchocerciasis.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Onchocerciasis Elimination: Progress and Challenges.Research and reports in tropical medicine · 2020Review
- Accelerating river blindness elimination by supplementing MDA with a vegetation "slash and clear" vector control strategy: a data-driven modeling analysis.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Loa loa Microfilariae in Skin Snips: Consequences for Onchocerciasis Monitoring and Evaluation in L. loa-Endemic Areas.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2019Article
- The positive influence the Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas has had on Africa programs.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2019Article
- Response to the Letter to the Editor by Eberhard et al.Parasites & vectors · 2017Article
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Abstract
A critique of the recommendation that skin snips be used for post-MDA surveillance of formerly endemic onchocerciasis areas is provided. After considering several fundamental aspects of the use of this methodology within the context of prolonged mass distribution of ivermectin, we argue that skin-snipping has no value for monitoring onchocerciasis elimination programs.
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