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Effect of repeated mass drug administration on the transmission of yaws: a retrospective genomic epidemiology study.
Amber Barton, Petra Pospíšilová, Camila G Beiras, Lucy N John, Wendy Houinei, Lorenzo Giacani, David Šmajs, Michael Marks, Oriol Mitjà, Mathew A Beale, Nicholas R Thomson
Published: 202610.1016/j.lanmic.2025.101229
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Yaws, a neglected tropical disease caused by Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue (T p pertenue), has evaded eradication, in part due to a high proportion of asymptomatic cases. Repeated mass drug administration (MDA), whereby an entire…
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