Response to the Letter to the Editor by Eberhard et al.
Bottomley, Christian;
Isham, Valerie;
Vivas-Martínez, Sarai;
Kuesel, Annette C;
Attah, Simon K;
Opoku, Nicholas O;
Lustigman, Sara;
Walker, Martin;
Basáñez, Maria-Gloria;
(2017)
Response to the Letter to the Editor by Eberhard et al.
Parasites & vectors, 10 (1).
240-.
ISSN 1756-3305
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-017-2125-5
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In a Letter to the Editor, Eberhard et al. question the validity of our model of skin snip sensitivity and argue against the use of skin snips to evaluate onchocerciasis elimination by mass drug administration. Here we discuss their arguments and compare model predictions with observed data to assess the validity of our model.