Adverse events after mass azithromycin treatments for trachoma in Ethiopia

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 291-294

  Ayele, Berhan ^a   Gebre, Teshome ^a   House, Jenafir I ^b   Zhou, Zhaoxia ^b   McCulloch, Charles E ^b   Porco, Travis C ^b   Gaynor, Bruce D ^b   Emerson, Paul M ^a   Lietman, Thomas M ^b   Keenan, Jeremy D ^b  

^a CARTER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMMUNITY PROGRAM; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DRUG ERUPTION; DYSPEPSIA; ETHIOPIA; EVALUATION AND FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMORRHOID; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; NAUSEA; OPEN ENDED QUESTIONNAIRE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRACHOMA; VOMITING;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; AZITHROMYCIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; TRACHOMA;

EID: 80051484097     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2011.11-0056     Document Type: Article

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