Height as a proxy for weight in determining azithromycin treatment for paediatric trachoma

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 691-694

  Basilion, Eva V ^a   Kilima, Peter M ^b   Turner, Virginia M ^a   Mecaskey, Jeffrey W ^a  

^a International Trachoma Initiative   (United States)

^b International Trachoma Initiative   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Azithromycin; Chemotherapy; Children; Community based treatment programmes; Dose assessment; Trachoma

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COMMUNITY CARE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; GHANA; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALI; POPULATION RESEARCH; RATING SCALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; TANZANIA; TRACHOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIET NAM; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 0345118222     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(02)90353-6     Document Type: Article

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