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

• Main Authors: Michael Marks (Author), Ventis Vahi (Author), Oliver Sokana (Author), Kai-Hua Chi (Author), Elliot Puiahi (Author), Georgina Kilua (Author), Allan Pillay (Author), Tenneth Dalipanda (Author), Christian Bottomley (Author), Anthony W Solomon (Author), David C Mabey (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: 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...