Authors
Elizabeth A Cromwell, Chris A Schmidt, Kevin T Kwong, David M Pigott, Denise Mupfasoni, Gautam Biswas, Shreya Shirude, Elex Hill, Katie M Donkers, Amir Abdoli, Michael RM Abrigo, Victor Adekanmbi, Olatunji O Adetokunboh Sr, Srividya Adinarayanan, Ehsan Ahmadpour, Muktar Beshir Ahmed, Temesgen Yihunie Akalu, Fahad Mashhour Alanezi, Turki M Alanzi, Cyrus Alinia, Vahid Alipour, Arianna Maever L Amit Sr, Nahla Hamed Anber, Robert Ancuceanu, Zewudu Andualem, Mina Anjomshoa, Fereshteh Ansari, Carl Abelardo T Antonio, Davood Anvari, Seth Christopher Yaw Appiah, Jalal Arabloo, Benjamin F Arnold, Marcel Ausloos, Martin Amogre Ayanore Sr, Alireza Badirzadeh, Atif Amin Baig Jr, Maciej Banach Sr, Adhanom Gebreegziabher Baraki Sr, Till Winfried Bärnighausen, Mohsen Bayati, Krittika Bhattacharyya Sr, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Ali Bijani, Donal Bisanzio, Moses John Bockarie, Somayeh Bohlouli, Mehdi Bohluli, Zahid A Butt, Jorge Cano, Felix Carvalho, Vijay Kumar Chattu, Ali Reza Chavshin, Natalie Maria Cormier, Giovanni Damiani, Lalit Dandona, Rakhi Dandona, Aso Mohammad Darwesh, Ahmad Daryani, Aditya Prasad Dash, Kebede Deribe, Aniruddha Deshpande, Blen Kassahun Dessu, Meghnath Dhimal, Mostafa Dianatinasab, Daniel Diaz, Hoa Thi Do, Lucas Earl, Maha El Tantawi, Anwar Faraj, Nazir Fattahi, Eduarda Fernandes, Florian Fischer, Nataliya A Foigt, Masoud Foroutan, Yuming Guo, Gessessew Bugssa Hailu, Ahmed I Hasaballah, Hadi Hassankhani, Claudiu Herteliu, Hagos Degefa de Hidru, Michael K Hole, Julia Hon, Naznin Hossain, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Mowafa Househ, Ayesha Humayun, Olayinka Stephen Ilesanmi, Irena M Ilic, Milena D Ilic, Usman Iqbal, Seyed Sina Naghibi Irvani, M Mofizul Islam, Ravi Prakash Jha, John S Ji, Kimberly B Johnson, Jacek Jerzy Jozwiak, Ali Kabir, Leila R Kalankesh, Rohollah Kalhor, Behzad Karami Matin, André Karch, Salah Eddin Karimi, Amir Kasaeian, Gbenga A Kayode, Ali Kazemi Karyani, Abraham Getachew Kelbore, Morteza Abdullatif Khafaie, Rovshan Khalilov, Junaid Khan, Khaled Khatab, Mona M Khater, Mohammad Taghi Khodayari, Neda Kianipour, Yun Jin Kim, Damaris K Kinyoki, G Anil Kumar, Dian Kusuma, Carlo La Vecchia, Van Charles Lansingh, Paul H Lee, Kate E LeGrand, Aubrey J Levine, Shanshan Li, Shokofeh Maleki, Mohammad Ali Mansournia, Francisco Rogerlândio Martins-Melo, Benjamin Ballard Massenburg, Benjamin K Mayala, Wahengbam Bigyananda Meitei, Walter Mendoza, Desalegn Tadese Mengistu, Seid Tiku Mereta, Tomislav Mestrovic, Kebadnew Mulatu Mihretie, Molly K Miller-Petrie, Abdollah Mohammadian-Hafshejani, Shafiu Mohammed, Ali H Mokdad, Masoud Moradi, Rahmatollah Moradzadeh, Paula Moraga, Shane Douglas Morrison, Jonathan F Mosser, Seyyed Meysam Mousavi, Sandra B Munro, Saravanan Muthupandian, Mehdi Naderi, Ahamarshan Jayaraman Nagarajan, Gurudatta Naik, Ionut Negoi
Publication date
2020/9/1
Journal
The Lancet Global Health
Volume
8
Issue
9
Pages
e1186-e1194
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Background
Lymphatic filariasis is a neglected tropical disease that can cause permanent disability through disruption of the lymphatic system. This disease is caused by parasitic filarial worms that are transmitted by mosquitos. Mass drug administration (MDA) of antihelmintics is recommended by WHO to eliminate lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem. This study aims to produce the first geospatial estimates of the global prevalence of lymphatic filariasis infection over time, to quantify progress towards elimination, and to identify geographical variation in distribution of infection.
Methods
A global dataset of georeferenced surveyed locations was used to model annual 2000–18 lymphatic filariasis prevalence for 73 current or previously endemic countries. We applied Bayesian model-based geostatistics and time series methods to generate spatially continuous estimates of global all-age 2000–18 prevalence of …
Scholar articles
EA Cromwell, CA Schmidt, KT Kwong, DM Pigott… - The Lancet Global Health, 2020