Thinking deeper about important mass treatment trials

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1674-1675

  Guerrant, Richard L ^a   Bartelt, Luther A ^a   Scharf, Rebecca J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; AZITHROMYCIN; RETINOL;

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COGNITION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ETHIOPIA; HELMINTHIASIS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFECTION; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; MASS TREATMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RURAL HEALTH CARE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TRACHOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; XEROPHTHALMIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; CHILD MORTALITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; TRACHOMA;

EID: 84861072850     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis241     Document Type: Letter

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