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Volume 20, Number 6—June 2014
Research

Short-Term Malaria Reduction by Single-Dose Azithromycin during Mass Drug Administration for Trachoma, Tanzania

Stephen E. Schachterle1, George Mtove, Joshua P. Levens, Emily Clemens, Lirong Shi, Amrita Raj, J. Stephen Dumler, Beatriz Munoz, Shelia West, and David J. SullivanComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (S.E. Schachterle, L. Shi, A. Raj, D.J. Sullivan); National Institute for Medical Research, Ubwari, Tanzania (G. Mtove); Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (J.P. Levens, E. Clemens, J.S. Dumler, B. Munoz, S. West)

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Figure 3

Study villages and location of malaria cases at baseline, Tanzania, January 12–July 21, 2009. Study site included 8 rural villages in central Tanzania, Dodoma Province. Four azithromycin (AZ) treatment villages in southeastern Tanzania are indicated by yellow numbers 1, 3, 4, and 6. Four nearby control villages in northwestern Tanzania are indicated by white numbers 2, 5, 7, and 8. The background map was extracted from Google Earth (Google, Mountain View, CA, USA). Households are indicated by bl

Figure 3. Study villages and location of malaria cases at baseline, Tanzania, January 12–July 21, 2009Study site included 8 rural villages in central Tanzania, Dodoma ProvinceFour azithromycin (AZ) treatment villages in southeastern Tanzania are indicated by yellow numbers 1, 3, 4, and 6Four nearby control villages in northwestern Tanzania are indicated by white numbers 2, 5, 7, and 8The background map was extracted from Google Earth (Google, Mountain View, CA, USA)Households are indicated by blue dots, malaria cases at baseline are indicated by red dots, and Dar es Salaam (capital) is indicated by the green dot.

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1Current affiliation: Pfizer, Inc., New York, New York, USA.

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