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    Ottesen EA, Duke BO, Karam M, Behbehani K, 1997. Strategies and tools for the control/elimination of lymphatic filariasis. Bull World Health Organ 75 :491–503.

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    Boreham PFL, Marks EN, 1986. Human filariasis in Australia: introduction, investigation and elimination. Proc R Soc Queensland 97 :23–52.

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    Sasa M, 1976. Human Filariasis: A Global Survey of Epidemiology and Control. Tokyo: University Park Press, 458–508,

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    Webber RH, 1977. The natural decline of Wuchereria bancrofti infection in a vector control situation in the Solomon Islands. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 71 :396–400.

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    Webber RH, 1979. Eradication of Wuchereria bancrofti infection through vector control. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 73 :722–724.

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    Bockarie M, 1994. Can lymphatic filariasis be eradiated in Papua New Guinea? P N G Med J 37 :61–64.

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    Molyneux DH, Zagaria N, 2002. Lymphatic filariasis elimination: progress in global programme development. Ann Trop Med Parasitol 96 (Suppl 2):S15–S40.

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    Sunish IP, Rajendran R, Mani TR, Munirathinam A, Tewari SC, Hiriyan J, Gajanana A, Satyarayana K, 2002. Resurgence in filarial transmission after withdrawal of mass drug administration and the relationship between antigenaemia and microfilaraemia—a longitudinal study. Trop Med Int Health 7 :59–69.

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    Burkot TR, Ichimori K, 2002. The Pacific program for the elimination of lymphatic filariasis: will mass drug administration be enough? Trends Parasitol 18 :109–115.

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    Raghavan HGS, 1961. The vectors of human infections by Wuchereria species in endemic areas and their biology. Bull World Health Organ 24 :177–195.

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    Williams SA, Laney SJ, Bierwert LA, Saunders LJ, Boakye DA, Fischer P, Goodman D, Helmy H, Hott SL, Vasuki V, Lammie PJ, Pichart C, Ramzy RMR, Ottesen EA, 2002. Development and standardization of a rapid, PCR-based method for the detection of Wuchereria bancrofti in mosquitoes, for xenomonitoring the human prevalence of Bancroftian filariasis. Ann Trop Med Parasitol 96 (Suppl 2):S41–S46.

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    Burkot TR, Taleo G, Toeaso V, Ichimori K, 2002. Progress towards and challenges for the elimination of filariasis from Pacific-island communities. Ann Trop Med Parasitol 96 (Suppl 2):S61–S69.

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    Chippauz J-P, Boussinesq M, Gardon J, Gardon-Wendel N, Ernould J-C, 1996. Severe adverse reaction risks during mass treatment with ivermectin in loiasis-endemic areas. Parasitol Today 12 :448–450.

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    Manga L, 2002. Vector-control synergies, between ‘Roll Back Malaria’ and the Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis, in the African region. Ann Trop Med Parasitol 96 (Suppl 2):S129–S132.

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    Prasittisuk C, 2002. Vector-control synergies, between ‘Roll Back Malaria’ and the Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis, in south-east Asia. Ann Trop Med Parasitol 96 (Suppl 2):S133–S137.

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    Pedersen EM, Mukoko DA, 2002. Impact of insecticide-treated materials on filaria transmission by the various species of vector mosquito in Africa. Ann Trop Med Parasitol 96 (Suppl 2):S91–S95.

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    Curtis CF, Malecela-Lazaro M, Reuben MR, Maxwell C, 2003. Use of floating layers of polystyrene beads to control populations of the filarial vector, Culex quinquefasciatus.Ann Trop Med Parasitol 96 (Suppl 2):S97–S104.

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    Lardeux F, Riviere F, Sechan Y, Loncke S, 2002. Control of the Aedes vectors of the dengue viruses and Wuchereria bancrofti: the French Polynesian experience. Ann Trop Med Parasitol 96 (Suppl 2):S105–S116.

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