AMA Publishing Group: Sexually Transmitted Diseases (not HIV/AIDS) Topic Collection http://pubs.jamanetwork.com/ en-us Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT Tue, 14 May 2013 18:47:03 GMT Silverchair editor@pubs.jamanetwork.com webmaster@pubs.jamanetwork.com Adult Mortality in a Randomized Trial of Mass Azithromycin for Trachoma http://pubs.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=1673751 Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT Keenan JD, Emerson PM, Gaynor BD, et al. <span class="paragraphSection">Annual mass azithromycin treatments are provided to entire communities to clear the ocular strains of Chlamydiatrachomatis that cause blinding trachoma. Mass treatments reduce the community burden of ocular chlamydia and have proven efficacious in community-randomized trials. Since 1999, more than 150 million doses of azithromycin have been distributed for trachoma worldwide.</span> 173 9 821 823 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.3041 http://pubs.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=1673751