A rationale for continuing mass antibiotic distributions for trachoma

BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization recommends periodic mass antibiotic distributions to reduce the ocular strains of chlamydia that cause trachoma, the world's leading cause of infectious blindness. Their stated goal is to control infection, not to completely eliminate it. A single mass...

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Autores principales: Ray, Kathryn J, Porco, Travis C, Hong, Kevin C, Lee, David C, Alemayehu, Wondu, Melese, Muluken, Lakew, Takele, Yi, Elizabeth, House, Jenafir, Chidambaram, Jaya D, Whitcher, John P, Gaynor, Bruce D, Lietman, Thomas M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1988814/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17683646
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-7-91

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1988814/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17683646
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-7-91

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