Molecular xenomonitoring as a post-MDA surveillance tool for global programme to eliminate lymphatic filariasis: Field validation in an evaluation unit in India.
Swaminathan SubramanianPurushothaman JambulingamKaliannagounder KrishnamoorthyNeelavathi SivagnanameCandasamy SadanandaneVenkatesan VasukiChokkalingam PalaniswamyBalakrishnan VijayakumarAdinarayanan SrividyaHari Kishan K RajuPublished in: PLoS neglected tropical diseases (2020)
The result of MX protocol was in good agreement with that of TAS, providing evidence to recommend MX as a complementary tool to TAS to decide on stopping MDA. MX can also be a potential surveillance tool for post-MDA and post-validation phases as it could detect sites with residual infection and risk of resurgence of transmission. MX is economically feasible as its cost is slightly higher than that of TAS.