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Impact of Community Mass Treatment with Azithromycin for Trachoma Elimination on the Prevalence of Yaws
BACKGROUND: Community mass treatment with 30mg/kg azithromycin is central to the new WHO strategy for eradicating yaws. Both yaws and trachoma— which is earmarked for elimination by 2020 using a strategy that includes mass treatment with 20mg/kg azithromycin—are endemic in the Pacific, raising the p...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4524711/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26241484 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0003988 |