Impact of short-term discontinuation of ivermectin-based chemoprevention on onchocerciasis transmission in endemic settings with long history of mass drug administration

• Arnauld Efon-Ekangouo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Arnauld Efon-Ekangouo, Hugues C. Nana-Djeunga

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Higher Institute for Scientific and Medical Research (ISM), Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Hugues C. Nana-Djeunga ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Arnauld Efon-Ekangouo, Hugues C. Nana-Djeunga

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nanadjeunga@crfilmt.org

  Affiliation Higher Institute for Scientific and Medical Research (ISM), Yaoundé, Cameroon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4496-6048

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• Narcisse Nzune-Toche,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Higher Institute for Scientific and Medical Research (ISM), Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Raïssa Dongmo-Yemele,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Higher Institute for Scientific and Medical Research (ISM), Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Jean Bopda,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Higher Institute for Scientific and Medical Research (ISM), Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Viviane Ongbassomben,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Higher Institute for Scientific and Medical Research (ISM), Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Laurentine Sumo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, Faculty of Science, University of Ebolowa, Ebolowa, Cameroon

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• Anne Geiger,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation INTERTRYP, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

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• Thomas B. Nutman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Joseph Kamgno

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Higher Institute for Scientific and Medical Research (ISM), Yaoundé, Cameroon, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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