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SUBMITTER: O'Brien KS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5590561 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
O'Brien Kieran S KS Cotter Sun Y SY Amza Abdou A Kadri Boubacar B Nassirou Baido B Stoller Nicole E NE Zhou Zhaoxia Z Cotter Chris C West Sheila K SK Bailey Robin L RL Rosenthal Philip J PJ Gaynor Bruce D BD Porco Travis C TC Lietman Thomas M TM
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20170719 3
Studies designed to determine the effects of mass administration of azithromycin on trachoma have suggested that mass azithromycin distributions may also reduce the prevalence of malaria. These studies have typically examined the impact of a small number of treatments over short durations. In this prespecified substudy of a cluster-randomized trial for trachoma, we compared malaria parasitemia prevalence in 24 communities in Niger randomized to receive either annual or biannual mass azithromycin ...[more]