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Table 1 Trial sites

From: The design and development of a multicentric protocol to investigate the impact of adjunctive doxycycline on the management of peripheral lymphoedema caused by lymphatic filariasis and podoconiosis

Programme

Country

Study sites

Environment

Principal investigator

Based at

LEDoxy

Sri Lanka

Pohlena, Walgama and Madihe suburbs, Galle

Semi-urban

Professor Channa Yahathugoda

Faculty of Medicine, University of Rahuna, Galle

Mali

Sikasso and Koulikoro

Rural

Dr Yaya I Coulibaly

International Center for Excellence in Research, (ICER-Mali), Bamako

India

Ambalappuzha and Cherthala Yaluks, Alappuzha, Kerala

Rural/Semi-urban

Professor T K Suma

Filariasis Research Unit, Govt. T. D. Medical College Hospital Alappuzha, Kerala

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Ghana

Upper East Region: Kassena-Nankana Eeast and West Districts

Rural

Professor Alexander Yaw Debrah

Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research (KCCR), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi

Tanzania

Lindi Region, Pwani Region

Rural/Semi-urban

Dr Upendo Mwingira

NIMR, Dar es Salaam

Cameroon

North West Region

Rural

Professor Samuel Wanji

Dept of Microbiology & Parasitology, University of Buea, SW State