Repeat Ivermectin Mass Drug Administrations for Malaria Control II: Protocol for a Double-blind, Cluster-Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial for the Integrated Control of Malaria

Brian D Foy   ¹ , PhD ;   Anthony Some   ² , MD ;   Tereza Magalhaes   ^{3, 4} , PhD ;   Lyndsey Gray   ¹ , PhD ;   Sangeeta Rao   ⁵ , PhD ;   Emmanuel Sougue   ² , MSc ;   Conner L Jackson   ⁶ , MSc ;   John Kittelson   ⁶ , PhD ;   Hannah C Slater   ⁷ , PhD ;   Teun Bousema   ⁸ , PhD ;   Ollo Da   ² , PhD ;   A Gafar V Coulidiaty   ² , MD ;   McKenzie Colt   ⁹ , MPH ;   Martina Wade   ⁹ , BSc ;   Kacey Richards   ⁹ , MPH ;   A Fabrice Some   ² , PhD ;   Roch K Dabire   ² , PhD ;   Sunil Parikh   ⁹ , MPH, MD

¹ Center for Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States

² Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Direction Régionale de l’Ouest, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

³ Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States

⁴ Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil

⁵ Department of Clinical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States

⁶ Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, University of Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO, United States

⁷ Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases, Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, Seattle, WA, United States

⁸ Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands

⁹ Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, United States