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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Autores principales: Marks, Michael, Vahi, Ventis, Sokana, Oliver, Chi, Kai-Hua, Puiahi, Elliot, Kilua, Georgina, Pillay, Allan, Dalipanda, Tenneth, Bottomley, Christian, Solomon, Anthony W., Mabey, David C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
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

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