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Chisholm and colleagues’ paper is important to policy makers,1 so serious errors in the trachoma analysis require correction.2 Firstly, “mass treatment with azithromycin” for trachoma was defined as azithromycin treatment for all children aged 1-10 years,3 whereas the World Health Organization recommends treatment of all residents. Secondly, data from a 1998-9 western Nepal trial were extrapolated to estimate effectiveness of mass treatment throughout sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia. Thirdly, the …
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