@article{28541,
  keywords = {Trachoma, Odds Ratio, Logistic Models, Infant, Humans, Ethiopia, Communicable Disease Control, Child, Preschool, Azithromycin, Anti-Bacterial Agents},
  author = {Chidambaram J and Melese M and Alemayehu W and Yi E and Prabriputaloong T and Lee DC and Cevallos V and Zhou Z and Whitcher J and Gaynor B and Lietman TM},
  title = {Mass antibiotic treatment and community protection in trachoma control programs.},
  abstract = {<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>
},
  year = {2004},
  journal = {Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America},
  volume = {39},
  pages = {e95-7},
  issn = {1537-6591},
  url = {http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/39/9/e95.full.pdf+html},
  doi = {10.1086/424747},
  language = {eng},
}