Journal article
Targeted treatment of yaws with household contact tracing: How much do we miss?
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Yaws is a disabling bacterial infection found primarily in warm and humid tropical areas. The World Health Organization strategy mandates an initial round of total community treatment (TCT) with single-dose azithromycin followed either by further TCT or active case-finding and treatment of cases and their contacts (the Morges strategy). We sought to investigate the effectiveness of the Morges strategy. We employed a stochastic household model to study the transmission of infection using data ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1093/aje/kwx305
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- American Journal Of Epidemiology Journal website
- Volume:
- 187
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 837–844
- Publication date:
- 2017-11-13
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-07-20
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1476-6256
- ISSN:
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0002-9262
- Source identifiers:
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745692
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- Dyson et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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Copyright © 2017 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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