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The impact on malaria of biannual treatment with azithromycin in children age less than 5 years: a prospective study

BACKGROUND: The MORDOR study, a cluster randomized clinical trial, showed that single-dose azithromycin (20 mg/kg) administered biannually for 2 years to preschool children reduced mortality; a study was conducted to determine its effect on clinical symptomatic episodes of malaria as a potential mec...

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Autores principales: Bloch, Evan M., Munoz, Beatriz, Mrango, Zakayo, Weaver, Jerusha, Mboera, Leonard E. G., Lietman, Tom M., Sullivan, David J., West, Sheila K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6708241/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31443654
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-019-2914-8