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Correction to: Differential susceptibility of Onchocerca volvulus microfilaria to ivermectin in two areas of contrasting history of mass drug administration in Cameroon: relevance of microscopy and molecular techniques for the monitoring of skin microfilarial repopulation within six months of direct observed treatment

BMC Infectious Diseases volume 21, Article number: 81 (2021) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 02 October 2020

Correction to: BMC Infect Dis 20, 726 (2020)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-020-05444-2

After publication of the original article [1], the authors identified an error in the author name of Manuel Ritter. The given name and family name were erroneously transposed.

The incorrect author name is:

<GivenName>Ritter</GivenName>

<FamilyName>Manuel</FamilyName>

The correct author name is:

<GivenName>Manuel</GivenName>.

<FamilyName>Ritter</FamilyName>.

The original article has been corrected.

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  1. Abong RA, et al. Differential susceptibility of Onchocerca volvulus microfilaria to ivermectin in two areas of contrasting history of mass drug administration in Cameroon: relevance of microscopy and molecular techniques for the monitoring of skin microfilarial repopulation within six months of direct observed treatment. BMC Infect Dis. 2020;20:726 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-020-05444-2.

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  1. Parasites and Vector Research Unit (PAVRU), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, P.O. Box 63, Buea, Cameroon

    Raphael Awah Abong, Glory N. Amambo, Patrick W. Chounna Ndongmo, Abdel Jelil Njouendou, Amuam Andrew Beng, Mathias Eyong Esum, Jerome Fru-Cho, Fanny F. Fombad, Peter Ivo Enyong & Samuel Wanji

  2. Research Foundation in Tropical Diseases and Environment (REFOTDE), P.O. Box 474, Buea, Cameroon

    Raphael Awah Abong, Glory N. Amambo, Patrick W. Chounna Ndongmo, Amuam Andrew Beng, Mathias Eyong Esum, Jerome Fru-Cho, Fanny F. Fombad, Theobald Mue Nji, Peter Ivo Enyong & Samuel Wanji

  3. Department of Biomedical science, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Buea, P.O. Box 63, Buea, Cameroon

    Abdel Jelil Njouendou

  4. Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

    Manuel Ritter, Kenneth Pfarr & Achim Hoerauf

  5. Global Health and Infection Department, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, BN1 9PX, UK

    Kebede Deribe

  6. School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    Kebede Deribe

  7. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

    Theobald Mue Nji

  8. New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA, USA

    Catherine B. Poole & Clotilde K. S. Carlow

  9. German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Bonn-Cologne, Bonn, Germany

    Kenneth Pfarr & Achim Hoerauf

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Abong, R.A., Amambo, G.N., Chounna Ndongmo, P.W. et al. Correction to: Differential susceptibility of Onchocerca volvulus microfilaria to ivermectin in two areas of contrasting history of mass drug administration in Cameroon: relevance of microscopy and molecular techniques for the monitoring of skin microfilarial repopulation within six months of direct observed treatment. BMC Infect Dis 21, 81 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-05797-2

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