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Community Risk Factors for Ocular Chlamydia Infection in Niger: Pre-Treatment Results from a Cluster-Randomized Trachoma Trial
BACKGROUND: Trachoma control programs utilize mass azithromycin distributions to treat ocular Chlamydia trachomatis as part of an effort to eliminate this disease world-wide. But it remains unclear what the community-level risk factors are for infection. METHODS: This cluster-randomized, controlled...
Autores principales: | Amza, Abdou, Kadri, Boubacar, Nassirou, Baido, Stoller, Nicole E., Yu, Sun N., Zhou, Zhaoxia, Chin, Stephanie, West, Sheila K., Bailey, Robin L., Mabey, David C. W., Keenan, Jeremy D., Porco, Travis C., Lietman, Thomas M., Gaynor, Bruce D. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3335874/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22545165 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001586 |
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