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Optimising sampling regimes and data collection to inform surveillance for trachoma control
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It is estimated that 190 million individuals are at risk of blindness from trachoma, and that control by mass drug administration (MDA) is reducing this risk in many populations. Programs are monitored using prevalence of follicular trachoma disease (TF) in children. However, as programs progress to low prevalence there are challenges interpreting this indirect measure of infection. PCR and sero-surveillance are being considered as complementary tools to monitor low-level transmission, but th...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Journal website
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 10
- Pages:
- e0006531
- Publication date:
- 2018-10-11
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-05-15
- DOI:
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1935-2735
- ISSN:
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1935-2727
- Pmid:
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30307939
- Source identifiers:
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928731
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- English
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pubs:928731
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uuid:006e933c-1e85-4d71-a855-b15925ed5f25
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- pubs:928731
- Deposit date:
- 2018-12-06
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- Copyright holder:
- Pinsent and Holligsworth
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- © 2018 Pinsent, Hollingsworth. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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