Ocular immune responses, Chlamydia trachomatis infection and clinical signs of trachoma before and after azithromycin mass drug administration in a treatment naïve trachoma-endemic Tanzanian community

BACKGROUND: Trachoma, caused by Chlamydia trachomatis, remains the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide. Persistence and progression of the resulting clinical disease appears to be an immunologically mediated process. Azithromycin, which is distributed at the community level for trachoma...

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Autores principales: Ramadhani, Athumani M., Derrick, Tamsyn, Macleod, David, Massae, Patrick, Malisa, Aiweda, Mbuya, Kelvin, Mtuy, Tara, Makupa, William, Roberts, Chrissy H., Bailey, Robin L., Mabey, David C. W., Holland, Martin J., Burton, Matthew J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6658141/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31306419
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007559

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6658141/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31306419
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007559

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