Azithromycin for child survival: digging without getting too dirty into the differential effect on cause-specific mortality

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¹ Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK; College of Health and Medical Sciences, Haramaya University, Harar, Ethiopia.
² ISGlobal, Barcelona Centre for International Health Research, Hospital Clínic - Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 08036, Spain; Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça, Maputo, Mozambique; Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain; Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Pediatrics Department, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu (University of Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain; Consorcio de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: quique.bassat@isglobal.org.

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Lola Madrid et al. Lancet Glob Health. 2020 Feb.

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. 2020 Feb;8(2):e169-e170.

doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(19)30558-3.

¹ Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK; College of Health and Medical Sciences, Haramaya University, Harar, Ethiopia.
² ISGlobal, Barcelona Centre for International Health Research, Hospital Clínic - Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 08036, Spain; Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça, Maputo, Mozambique; Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain; Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Pediatrics Department, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu (University of Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain; Consorcio de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: quique.bassat@isglobal.org.

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