[HTML][HTML] Acceptability of test and treat with doxycycline against Onchocerciasis in an area of persistent transmission in Massangam Health District, Cameroon

R Nditanchou, R Dixon, K Atekem… - PLOS Neglected …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
larviciding and test and treat with doxycycline (TTd) were … Unlike in the COUNTDOWN project
[21] where each strategy … for this population in areas where loa loa co-endemicity is not a …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating the impact of alternative intervention strategies in accelerating onchocerciasis elimination in an area of persistent transmission in the West Region …

K Atekem, R Dixon, A Wilhelm, B Biholong… - PLOS Neglected …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
… In addition, areas co-endemic with loiasis, where individuals … of test and treat with doxycycline
(TTd) were implemented in … river discharges and quantity of temephos released. Following …

[HTML][HTML] … larviciding implementation for onchocerciasis control in the Meme River Basin in South West Cameroon: the COUNTDOWN Consortium alternative strategy …

R Ekanya, ED Obie, L Hamill, S Thorogood… - Parasites & …, 2022 - Springer
… In the forest regions, the co-endemicity with Loa loa has led to … Region where onchocerciasis
is co-endemic with loiasis. … to temephos prior to the implementation of ground larviciding

[HTML][HTML] Cost of implementing a doxycycline test-and-treat strategy for onchocerciasis elimination among settled and semi-nomadic groups in Cameroon

G Trotignon, R Dixon, K Atekem… - PLOS Neglected …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
… , namely test-and-treat with doxycycline (TTd), larviciding and … the TTd strategy, biannual
CDTi and ground larviciding) had a … for accelerating onchocerciasis elimination in Africa. African …

[HTML][HTML] Ivermectin and doxycycline treatments against Onchocerciasis: Adaptations and impact among semi-nomadic population in Massangam Health District …

R Nditanchou, R Dixon, K Atekem… - PLOS Neglected …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
… To accelerate elimination, ATS including test and treat with … The strategic adaptions employed
in this study have … acceptability of ivermectin and test and treat with doxycycline. This has …

[HTML][HTML] Onchocerciasis: Current knowledge and future goals

L Frallonardo, F Di Gennaro, GG Panico… - Frontiers in Tropical …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… for accelerating onchocerciasis elimination in an area of loiasis co-endemicity: the
COUNTDOWN consortium multi-disciplinary study protocol, 4 Dec 2019). …

Moxidectin: an oral treatment for human onchocerciasis

P Milton, JID Hamley, M Walker… - Expert Review of Anti …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… of its usefulness in onchocerciasisloiasis co-endemic areas will … test-and-treat with
doxycycline (TTd) strategy (with and without focal 10-week vector control through ground larviciding

An overview of the management of mansonellosis

TH Ta-Tang, SLB Luz, JL Crainey… - Research and reports in …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
… tool is usually being deployed in test and treat way (and M. … onchocerciasis or lymphatic
filariasis), in areas where loiasisground larviciding [treating of specific rivers with temephos] for …

Why onchocerciasis transmission persists after 15 annual ivermectin mass drug administrations in South-West Cameroon

A Forrer, S Wanji, ED Obie, TM Nji, L Hamill… - BMJ global …, 2021 - gh.bmj.com
doxycycline (test and treat with doxycycline), either alone or in combination with ground
larviciding with temephos … of current very low, but past low-to-moderate loiasis co-endemicity. In …

Mapping the burden of onchocercal skin disease

ME Murdoch - British Journal of Dermatology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… The estimated overlap of onchocerciasis‐ and loiasis‐endemic areas in APOC countries is
… Trials with alternative treatment strategies such as doxycycline plus ground larviciding of …