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Linear growth in preschool children treated with mass azithromycin distributions for trachoma: A cluster-randomized trial

BACKGROUND: Mass azithromycin distributions have been shown to reduce mortality among pre-school children in sub-Saharan Africa. It is unclear what mediates this mortality reduction, but one possibility is that antibiotics function as growth promoters for young children. METHODS AND FINDINGS: 24 rur...

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Autores principales: Keenan, Jeremy D., Gebresillasie, Sintayehu, Stoller, Nicole E., Haile, Berhan A., Tadesse, Zerihun, Cotter, Sun Y., Ray, Kathryn J., Aiemjoy, Kristen, Porco, Travis C., Callahan, E. Kelly, Emerson, Paul M., Lietman, Thomas M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6550377/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31166952
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007442