Filling Key Research Gaps With Clinical Implications in Mansonellosis and Schistosomiasis: a Network Approach

Inclusion Criteria

• •samples from patients who gave consent to the storage and use for research purposes of their samples. In the case a network centre necessitates a template for the storage and use for research purposes of their samples;
• •samples collected before any treatment with praziquantel and/or benzimidazole and/or avermectin and/or diethylcarbamazine and/or doxycycline drug;
• •samples collected and stored in conditions suitable for this study (Annex 2);
• •known country of birth of the patient or of most likely infection (if different from the country of birth)