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SUBMITTER: Guagliardo SAJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8045642 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Guagliardo Sarah Anne J SAJ Wiegand Ryan R Roy Sharon L SL Cleveland Christopher A CA Zirimwabagabo Hubert H Chop Elisabeth E Tchindebet Ouakou Philippe P Ruiz-Tiben Ernesto E R Hopkins Donald D J Weiss Adam A
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20210222 4
The Guinea Worm Eradication Program has been extraordinarily successful-in 2019, there were 53 human cases reported, down from the estimated 3.5 million in 1986. Yet the occurrence of Guinea worm in dogs is a challenge to eradication efforts, and underlying questions about transmission dynamics remain. We used routine surveillance data to run negative binomial regressions predicting worm burden among infected dogs in Chad. Of 3,371 infected dogs reported during 2015-2018, 38.5% had multiple worm ...[more]