%0 Journal Article
%T Response to the Letter to the Editor by Eberhard et al.
%A Annette C. Kuesel
%A Christian Bottomley
%A Maria-Gloria Bas¨¢£¿ez
%A Martin Walker
%A Nicholas O. Opoku
%A Sara Lustigman
%A Sarai Vivas-Mart¨ªnez
%A Simon K. Attah
%A Valerie Isham
%J Archive of "Parasites & Vectors".
%D 2017
%R 10.1186/s13071-017-2125-5
%X 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
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5434579/