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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...
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. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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