To the Editor: The recent editorial by McCarthy and Garrow1 eloquently articulates a case for a coordinated national approach to controlling parasite infections in Aboriginal populations, based predominantly on the authors' experience with chemotherapeutic intervention in one remote community in Western Australia.
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Correspondence: p.prociv@mailbox.uq.edu.au
- 1. McCarthy JS, Garrow SC. Parasite elimination programs: home and away [editorial]. Med J Aust 2002; 176: 456-457 <MJA full text>
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- 4. Boreham PFL, Marks NM. Human filariasis in Australia: introduction, investigation and elimination. Proc R Soc Qld 1986; 97: 23-52.
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