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SUBMITTER: Castonguay FM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7482273 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Castonguay François M FM Sokolow Susanne H SH De Leo Giulio A GA Sanchirico James N JN
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20200826 1933
Control of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) via mass drug administration (MDA) has increased considerably over the past decade, but strategies focused exclusively on human treatment show limited efficacy. This paper investigated trade-offs between drug and environmental treatments in the fight against NTDs by using schistosomiasis as a case study. We use optimal control techniques where the planner's objective is to treat the disease over a time horizon at the lowest possible total cost, where ...[more]