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- Title
Feasibility of eliminating ocular Chlamydia trachomatis with repeat mass antibiotic treatments.
- Authors
Melese, Muluken; Chidambaram, Jaya Devi; Alemayehu, Wondu; Lee, David Chung; Yi, Elizabeth H; Cevallos, Vicky; Zhou, Zhaoxia; Donnellan, Cathy; Saidel, Michael; Whitcher, John P; Gaynor, Bruce D; Lietman, Thomas M
- Abstract
Mass antibiotic administrations for ocular chlamydial infection play a key role in the World Health Organization's trachoma control program. Mathematical models suggest that it is possible to eliminate trachoma locally with repeat mass treatment, depending on the coverage level of the population, frequency of mass treatments, and rate that infection returns into a community after each mass treatment. Precise estimates of this latter parameter have never been reported.
- Publication
JAMA, 2004, Vol 292, Issue 6, p721
- ISSN
1538-3598
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.292.6.721