Control of Trachoma in Australia: A Model Based Evaluation of Current Interventions

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Shattock, Andrew J ^a   Gambhir, Manoj ^b   Taylor, Hugh R ^c   Cowling, Carleigh S ^a   Kaldor, John M ^a   Wilson, David P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FACIAL CLEANLINESS; HOUSING; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERVENTION STUDY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGEN LOAD; PERSONAL HYGIENE; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; REINFECTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; TRACHOMA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYGIENE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; HYGIENE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREVALENCE; TRACHOMA;

EID: 84929493847     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003474     Document Type: Article

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