TY - JOUR
KW - Trachoma
KW - Odds Ratio
KW - Logistic Models
KW - Infant
KW - Humans
KW - Ethiopia
KW - Communicable Disease Control
KW - Child, Preschool
KW - Azithromycin
KW - Anti-Bacterial Agents
AU - Chidambaram J
AU - Melese M
AU - Alemayehu W
AU - Yi E
AU - Prabriputaloong T
AU - Lee DC
AU - Cevallos V
AU - Zhou Z
AU - Whitcher J
AU - Gaynor B
AU - Lietman TM
AB - <p>Azithromycin is highly effective against trachoma, but the practical difficulties of community-wide distribution often leave many individuals untreated. We demonstrate, after mass azithromycin treatment of a population in Ethiopia, an indirect protective effect that occurred among untreated children who resided in villages in which most individuals had been treated. Similarities with the indirect protection within a treated community (i.e., "herd protection") that has been observed in vaccination programs are discussed.</p>

BT - Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
C1 - <p>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15494901?dopt=Abstract</p>

DO - 10.1086/424747
IS - 9
J2 - Clin. Infect. Dis.
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Azithromycin is highly effective against trachoma, but the practical difficulties of community-wide distribution often leave many individuals untreated. We demonstrate, after mass azithromycin treatment of a population in Ethiopia, an indirect protective effect that occurred among untreated children who resided in villages in which most individuals had been treated. Similarities with the indirect protection within a treated community (i.e., "herd protection") that has been observed in vaccination programs are discussed.</p>

PY - 2004
SP - e95
EP - 7
T2 - Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
TI - Mass antibiotic treatment and community protection in trachoma control programs.
UR - http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/39/9/e95.full.pdf+html
VL - 39
SN - 1537-6591
ER -