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Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic in eliminating trachoma as a public health problem
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Background Progress towards elimination of trachoma as a public health problem has been substantial, but the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disrupted community-based control efforts. Methods We use a susceptible-infected model to estimate the impact of delayed distribution of azithromycin treatment on the prevalence of active trachoma. Results We identify three distinct scenarios for geographic districts depending on whether the basic reproduction number and the treatment-...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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NEI NIH HHS
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Journal website
- Volume:
- 115
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 222-228
- Place of publication:
- England
- Publication date:
- 2021-01-15
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-01-09
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1878-3503
- ISSN:
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0035-9203
- Pmid:
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33449114
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1158842
- Local pid:
- pubs:1158842
- Deposit date:
- 2021-10-06
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- Copyright holder:
- World Health Organization
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © World Health Organization, 2021. All rights reserved. The World Health Organization has granted the Publisher permission for the reproduction of this article. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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