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Number of Years of Annual Mass Treatment With Azithromycin Needed to Control Trachoma in Hyper-endemic Communities in Tanzania
Background. The World Health Organization recommends mass treatment as part of a trachoma control strategy. However, scant empirical data from hyperendemic communities exist on the number of rounds of treatment needed to reach a goal of <5% prevalence in children. We determined the prevalence of...
Autores principales: | West, Sheila K., Munoz, Beatriz, Mkocha, Harran, Gaydos, Charlotte A., Quinn, Thomas C. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3114471/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21673038 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jir257 |
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