Trachoma Decline and Widespread Use of Antimicrobial Drugs

Widespread use of antimicrobial drugs may be contributing to trachoma decline.

• Publication year

  2004

• Venue

  Emerging Infectious Diseases

• Publication date

  2004-11-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3201/eid1011.040476PMID 15550197PMCID 3329000
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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