Spatial clustering of ocular chlamydial infection over time following treatment, among households in a village in Tanzania

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 99-104

  Broman, Aimee Teo ^a,b   Shum, Kenny ^a   Munoz, Beatriz ^a   Duncan, Donald D ^a   West, Sheila K ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE INFECTION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TANZANIA; TRACHOMA; CHILD; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONJUNCTIVA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONJUNCTIVA; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING; TANZANIA; TRACHOMA;

EID: 33644848252     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.05-0326     Document Type: Article

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