ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2014
Optimal seasonal timing of oral azithromycin for malaria.
Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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- Effects of Biannual Azithromycin Mass Drug Administration on Malaria in Malawian Children: A Cluster-Randomized Trial.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2020Trial
- Biannual mass azithromycin distributions and malaria parasitemia in pre-school children in Niger: A cluster-randomized, placebo-controlled trial.PLoS medicine · 2019Trial
- Annual Versus Biannual Mass Azithromycin Distribution and Malaria Parasitemia During the Peak Transmission Season Among Children in Niger.The Pediatric infectious disease journal · 2018Trial
- Mass Azithromycin and Malaria Parasitemia in Niger: Results from a Community-Randomized Trial.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2017Trial
- Mathematical modeling for analyzing mass drug administration operational factors for efficient malaria incidence reduction in southern Senegal.Infectious Disease Modelling · 2026Article
- Optimizing the impact of a novel spatial repellent on malaria incidence in Western Kenya.Epidemiology and infection · 2026Article
- Winter is coming: Pathogen emergence in seasonal environments.PLoS computational biology · 2020Article
- Mathematical Analysis of the Ross-Macdonald Model with Quarantine.Bulletin of mathematical biology · 2020Article
- Optimizing the deployment of ultra-low volume and targeted indoor residual spraying for dengue outbreak response.PLoS computational biology · 2020Article
- Biannual versus annual mass azithromycin distribution and malaria seroepidemiology among preschool children in Niger: a sub-study of a cluster randomized trial.Malaria journal · 2019Article
- Mass Oral Azithromycin for Childhood Mortality: Timing of Death After Distribution in the MORDOR Trial.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2019Article
- Modelling the large-scale yellow fever outbreak in Luanda, Angola, and the impact of vaccination.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2018Article
- Mass drug administration: the importance of synchrony.Mathematical medicine and biology : a journal of the IMA · 2017Article
- Macrolides and associated antibiotics based on similar mechanism of action like lincosamides in malaria.Malaria journal · 2016Article
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Abstract
Mass administration of azithromycin for trachoma has been shown to reduce malarial parasitemia. However, the optimal seasonal timing of such distributions for antimalarial benefit has not been established. We performed numerical analyses on a seasonally forced epidemic model (of Ross-Macdonald type) with periodic impulsive annual mass treatment to address this question. We conclude that when azithromycin-based trachoma elimination programs occur in regions of seasonal malaria transmission, such as Niger, the optimal seasonal timing of mass drug administration (MDA) may not occur during the season of maximum transmission.
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