Estimating household and community transmission of ocular Chlamydia trachomatis.

• Main Authors: Isobel M Blake (Author), Matthew J Burton (Author), Robin L Bailey (Author), Anthony W Solomon (Author), Sheila West (Author), Beatriz Muñoz (Author), Martin J Holland (Author), David C W Mabey (Author), Manoj Gambhir (Author), María-Gloria Basáñez (Author), Nicholas C Grassly (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Community-wide administration of antibiotics is one arm of a four-pronged strategy in the global initiative to eliminate blindness due to trachoma. The potential impact of more efficient, targeted treatment of infected households depends on the relative contribution of community and household transm...