An index of community ocular Chlamydia trachomatis load for control of trachoma

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 175-177

  Alexander, Neal D E ^a   Solomon, A W ^a   Holland, M J ^a   Bailey, R L ^a,b   West, S K ^c   Shao, J F ^d   Mabey, D C W ^a   Foster, A ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Chlamydia trachomatis; Control programmes; Quantitative PCR; Tanzania; Trachoma; Williams mean

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; CALCULATION; CALIBRATION; CHILD; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROFILARIA; MICROORGANISM; ONCHOCERCIASIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCALE UP; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TANZANIA; TRACHOMA;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TANZANIA; TRACHOMA;

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS;

EID: 12144256746     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2004.05.003     Document Type: Article

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