| progress toward elimination of lymphatic filariasis --- togo, 2000--2009. | lymphatic filariasis (lf) is a disabling, mosquito-borne disease of humans caused by the parasitic filarial nematodes wuchereria bancrofti, brugia malayi, and brugia timori. in 2000, the global program to eliminate lf (gpelf) was established with the objective of eliminating lf as a public health problem by 2020. at that time, 80 countries had ongoing transmission, with an estimated 1.34 billion persons at risk for infection and 120 million infected. this report describes the lf elimination prog ... | 2011 | 21796097 |