Impact of Community Mass Treatment with Azithromycin for Trachoma Elimination on the Prevalence of Yaws.

• Auteurs principaux: Michael Marks (Auteur), Ventis Vahi (Auteur), Oliver Sokana (Auteur), Kai-Hua Chi (Auteur), Elliot Puiahi (Auteur), Georgina Kilua (Auteur), Allan Pillay (Auteur), Tenneth Dalipanda (Auteur), Christian Bottomley (Auteur), Anthony W Solomon (Auteur), David C Mabey (Auteur)
• Format: Livre
• Publié: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Sujets: article
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BACKGROUND:Community mass treatment with 30 mg/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 20 mg/kg azithromycin--are endemic in the Pacific, raising the...