{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,1]],"date-time":"2026-10-01T14:10:41Z","timestamp":1790863841106,"version":"4.1.0"},"reference-count":38,"publisher":"Elsevier BV","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2025,3,1]],"date-time":"2025-03-01T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1740787200000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/tdm\/userlicense\/1.0\/"},{"start":{"date-parts":[[2025,3,1]],"date-time":"2025-03-01T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1740787200000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/legal\/tdmrep-license"},{"start":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,22]],"date-time":"2025-01-22T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1737504000000},"content-version":"vor","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/"}],"content-domain":{"domain":["clinicalkey.fr","clinicalkey.jp","clinicalkey.es","clinicalkey.com.au","clinicalkey.com","ijidonline.com","elsevier.com","sciencedirect.com"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":["International Journal of Infectious Diseases"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2025,3]]},"DOI":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,25]],"date-time":"2025-01-25T00:11:44Z","timestamp":1737763904000},"page":"107801","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/elsevier_cm_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"special_numbering":"C","title":["Confirmatory mapping for lymphatic filariasis in districts previously considered nonendemic in Ghana"],"prefix":"10.1016","volume":"152","author":[{"given":"Joseph L.","family":"Opare","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5000-6177","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dziedzom K.","family":"de Souza","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bright","family":"Alomatu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ernest","family":"Mensah","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Emmanuel","family":"Nyarko","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Odame","family":"Asiedu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Judith","family":"Saare","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Charles","family":"Brown-Davies","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Irene D.","family":"Dzathor","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5672-5583","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Achille","family":"Kabore","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ernest O.","family":"Mensah","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"78","reference":[{"issue":"3","key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pntd.0005280","article-title":"Fifteen years of programme implementation for the elimination of Lymphatic filariasis in Ghana: impact of MDA on immunoparasitological indicators","volume":"11","author":"Biritwum","year":"2017","journal-title":"PLoS Negl Trop Dis"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0002","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pntd.0007115","article-title":"Progress towards lymphatic filariasis elimination in Ghana from 2000 to 2016: analysis of microfilaria prevalence data from 430 communities","volume":"13","author":"Biritwum","year":"2019","journal-title":"PLoS Negl Trop Dis"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0003","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"695","DOI":"10.1179\/000349802125001735","article-title":"The use of spatial analysis in mapping the distribution of bancroftian filariasis in four West African countries","volume":"96","author":"Gyapong","year":"2002","journal-title":"Ann Trop Med Parasitol"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0004","unstructured":"World Health Organization. Ending the neglect to attain the sustainable development goals: a road map for neglected tropical diseases 2021\u20132030. p. 2020. https:\/\/www.who.int\/neglected_diseases\/Ending-the-neglect-to-attain-the-SDGs--NTD-Roadmap.pdf."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0005","year":"2014"},{"issue":"3","key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0006","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pntd.0006325","article-title":"Results of a confirmatory mapping tool for lymphatic filariasis endemicity classification in areas where transmission was uncertain in Ethiopia","volume":"12","author":"Sime","year":"2018","journal-title":"PLoS Negl Trop Dis"},{"issue":"10","key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0007","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pntd.0005944","article-title":"The rationale and cost-effectiveness of a confirmatory mapping tool for lymphatic filariasis: examples from Ethiopia and Tanzania","volume":"11","author":"Gass","year":"2017","journal-title":"PLoS Negl Trop Dis"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0009","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"26","DOI":"10.1016\/S0035-9203(96)90466-6","article-title":"Descriptive epidemiology of lymphatic filariasis in Ghana","volume":"90","author":"Gyapong","year":"1996","journal-title":"Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0010","series-title":"Confirmatory Mapping Survey Builder","article-title":"Coalition for operational research on neglected tropical diseases","year":"2018"},{"issue":"10","key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0012","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e317","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pntd.0000317","article-title":"The global programme to eliminate lymphatic filariasis: health impact after 8 years","volume":"2","author":"Ottesen","year":"2008","journal-title":"PLoS Negl Trop Dis"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0013","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1016\/S0065-308X(05)61010-X","article-title":"Lymphatic filariasis: treatment, control and elimination","volume":"61:395-441","author":"Ottesen","year":"2006","journal-title":"Adv Parasitol"},{"issue":"40","key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0014","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"390","DOI":"10.1016\/S0035-9203(98)91058-6","article-title":"The relationship between infection and disease in Wuchereria bancrofti infection in Ghana","volume":"92","author":"Gyapong","year":"1998","journal-title":"Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0015","first-page":"21","article-title":"Morbidity hotspot surveillance: a novel approach to detect lymphatic filariasis transmission in nonendemic areas of the Tillab\u00e9ry region of Niger","author":"Badia-Rius","year":"2023","journal-title":"Parasite Epidemiol Control"},{"issue":"8","key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0016","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pgph.0000760","article-title":"Edmiston M.,et al. Effectiveness of community-based burden estimation to achieve elimination of lymphatic filariasis: a comparative cross-sectional investigation in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire","volume":"2","author":"Simpson","year":"2022","journal-title":"PLOS Global Public Health"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0017","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"259","DOI":"10.1186\/1756-3305-5-259","article-title":"Diversity and transmission competence in lymphatic filariasis vectors in West Africa, and the implications for accelerated elimination of Anopheles-transmitted filariasis","volume":"5","author":"De Souza","year":"2012","journal-title":"Parasites Vectors"},{"issue":"3","key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0018","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0009927","article-title":"Environmental factors associated with the distribution of Anopheles gambiae s.s in Ghana; an important vector of lymphatic filariasis and malaria","volume":"5","author":"de Souza","year":"2010","journal-title":"PLoS One"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0019","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"85","DOI":"10.1186\/1756-3305-3-85","article-title":"Studies of Anopheles gambiae s.l (Diptera: culicidae) exhibiting different vectorial capacities in lymphatic filariasis transmission in the Gomoa district, Ghana","volume":"3","author":"Amuzu","year":"2010","journal-title":"Parasit Vectors"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0020","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1186\/1756-3305-5-89","article-title":"Mansonia Africana and Mansonia uniforms are vectors in the transmission of Wuchereria bancrofti lymphatic filariasis in Ghana","volume":"5","author":"Ughasi","year":"2012","journal-title":"Parasit Vectors"},{"issue":"6","key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0021","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e214e.220","DOI":"10.1016\/S1473-3099(18)30069-0","article-title":"Elimination of lymphatic filariasis in west African urban areas: is implementation of mass drug administration necessary?","volume":"18","author":"Koudou","year":"2018","journal-title":"Lancet Infect Dis"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0022","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"387","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1365-3156.2005.01389.x","article-title":"Lymphatic filariasis in Ghana: establishing the potential for an urban cycle of transmission","volume":"10","author":"Gbakima","year":"2005","journal-title":"Trop Med Int Health"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0023","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pntd.0005280","article-title":"Fifteen years of programme implementation for the elimination of Lymphatic filariasis in Ghana: impact of MDA on immunoparasitological indicators","volume":"11","author":"Biritwum","year":"2017","journal-title":"PLoS Negl Trop Dis"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0024","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"690","DOI":"10.1093\/trstmh\/trx007","article-title":"Persistent \u201chotspots\u201d of lymphatic filariasis microfilaraemia despite 14 years of mass drug administration in Ghana","volume":"110","author":"Biritwum","year":"2016","journal-title":"Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0025","first-page":"4","article-title":"Dumashie E,et al. Low microfilaremia levels in three districts in coastal Ghana with at least 16 years of mass drug administration and persistent transmission of lymphatic filariasis","volume":"3","author":"de Souza","year":"2018","journal-title":"Trop Med Infect Dis"},{"issue":"10","key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0026","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"238","DOI":"10.1186\/s12889-018-5157-7","article-title":"Community perspectives on persistent transmission of lymphatic filariasis in three hotspot districts in Ghana after 15 rounds of mass drug administration: a qualitative assessment","volume":"18","author":"Ahorlu","year":"2018","journal-title":"BMC Public Health"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0027","article-title":"Assessing lymphatic filariasis data quality in endemic communities in Ghana, using the neglected tropical diseases data quality assessment tool for preventive chemotherapy","volume":"10(30: 20004590","author":"de Souza","year":"2016","journal-title":"PLoS Negl Trop Dis"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0028","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"953094","DOI":"10.3389\/fitd.2022.953094","article-title":"Finding and eliminating the reservoirs: engage and treat, and test and treat strategies for lymphatic filariasis programs to overcome endgame challenges","volume":"3","author":"de Souza","year":"2022","journal-title":"Front. Trop. Dis."},{"issue":"5","key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0029","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pntd.0005619","article-title":"Improving drug delivery strategies for lymphatic filariasis elimination in urban areas in Ghana","volume":"11","author":"Biritwum","year":"2017","journal-title":"PLoS Negl Trop Dis"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0030","series-title":"Lymphatic Filariasis: A Handbook for National Elimination Programmes","year":"2013"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0031","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"681","DOI":"10.1016\/S0035-9203(01)90115-4","article-title":"The use of grid sampling methodology for rapid assessment of the distribution of bancroftian filariasis","volume":"95","author":"Gyapong","year":"2001","journal-title":"Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0032","first-page":"241","article-title":"Can anopheline-transmitted filariasis be eradicated?","volume":"94","author":"Webber","year":"1991","journal-title":"J Trop Med Hyg"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0033","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"501","DOI":"10.1179\/000349804225003514","article-title":"Vector competence, for Wuchereria bancrofti, of the Anopheles populations in the Bongo district of Ghana","volume":"98","author":"Boakye","year":"2004","journal-title":"Ann Trop Med Parasitol"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0034","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"59","DOI":"10.1046\/j.1365-3156.2002.00828.x","article-title":"Resurgence in filarial transmission after withdrawal of mass drug administration and the relationship between antigenaemia and microfilaraemia \u2013 a longitudinal study","volume":"7","author":"Sunish","year":"2002","journal-title":"Trop Med Int Health"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0035","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"S503","DOI":"10.1093\/infdis\/jiz647","article-title":"Elimination or resurgence: modelling lymphatic filariasis after reaching the 1% microfilaremia prevalence threshold","volume":"221","author":"Prada","year":"2020","journal-title":"J Infect Dis"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0036","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pntd.0003669","article-title":"Cessation of mass drug administration for lymphatic filariasis in Zanzibar in 2006: was transmission interrupted?","volume":"9","author":"Rebollo","year":"2015","journal-title":"PLoS Negl Trop Dis"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0037","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"157","DOI":"10.1080\/20477724.2016.1205302","article-title":"Mapping is a prerequisite for elimination of filariasis and effective targeting of filarial \u201chot spots","volume":"110","author":"Chand","year":"2016","journal-title":"Pathog Glob Health"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0038","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pntd.0003642","article-title":"Elimination of lymphatic filariasis in the Gambia","volume":"9","author":"Rebollo","year":"2015","journal-title":"PLoS Negl Trop Dis"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0039","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Boakye D., de Souza D., Bockarie M. Alternative Interventions Against Neglected Tropical Diseases in SSA: Vector Control BT - Neglected Tropical Diseases - Sub-Saharan Africa. In: Gyapong J, Boatin B (eds.). Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, 367-84.","DOI":"10.1007\/978-3-319-25471-5_16"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801_bib0040","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"39","DOI":"10.1186\/1756-3305-6-39","article-title":"Can malaria vector control accelerate the interruption of lymphatic filariasis transmission in Africa; capturing a window of opportunity?","volume":"6","author":"Kelly-Hope","year":"2013","journal-title":"Parasit Vectors"}],"container-title":["International Journal of Infectious Diseases"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/api.elsevier.com\/content\/article\/PII:S1201971225000256?httpAccept=text\/xml","content-type":"text\/xml","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/api.elsevier.com\/content\/article\/PII:S1201971225000256?httpAccept=text\/plain","content-type":"text\/plain","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,3,4]],"date-time":"2025-03-04T10:04:52Z","timestamp":1741082692000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S1201971225000256"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2025,3]]},"references-count":38,"alternative-id":["S1201971225000256"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801","relation":{},"ISSN":["1201-9712"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1201-9712","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2025,3]]},"assertion":[{"value":"Elsevier","name":"publisher","label":"This article is maintained by"},{"value":"Confirmatory mapping for lymphatic filariasis in districts previously considered nonendemic in Ghana","name":"articletitle","label":"Article Title"},{"value":"International Journal of Infectious Diseases","name":"journaltitle","label":"Journal Title"},{"value":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ijid.2025.107801","name":"articlelink","label":"CrossRef DOI link to publisher maintained version"},{"value":"article","name":"content_type","label":"Content Type"},{"value":"\u00a9 2025 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases.","name":"copyright","label":"Copyright"}],"article-number":"107801"}}