Linear growth in preschool children treated with mass azithromycin distributions for trachoma: A cluster-randomized trial.

• Asıl Yazarlar: Jeremy D Keenan (Yazar), Sintayehu Gebresillasie (Yazar), Nicole E Stoller (Yazar), Berhan A Haile (Yazar), Zerihun Tadesse (Yazar), Sun Y Cotter (Yazar), Kathryn J Ray (Yazar), Kristen Aiemjoy (Yazar), Travis C Porco (Yazar), E Kelly Callahan (Yazar), Paul M Emerson (Yazar), Thomas M Lietman (Yazar)
• Materyal Türü: Kitap
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Konular: article
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<h4>Background</h4>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.<h4>...