Eliminating Trachoma in Areas with Limited Disease

The common wisdom is that a trachoma program cannot eliminate ocular chlamydia from a community, just reduce infection to a level where there would be minimal blindness. We describe the success of multiple mass antibiotic treatments, demonstrating that complete elimination of infection may be an att...

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Autores principales: Gaynor, Bruce D., Miao, Yinghui, Cevallos, Vicky, Jha, Hem, Chaudary, JSP, Bhatta, Ramesh, Osaki-Holm, Susan, Yi, Elizabeth, Schachter, Julius, Whitcher, John P., Lietman, Thomas
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2003
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2972764/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12737745
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0905.020577

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2972764/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12737745
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0905.020577

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