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. 2020 Jun;5(6):e002446.
doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002446.

Mass azithromycin administration: considerations in an increasingly resistant world

Yogesh Hooda  1   2 , Arif M Tanmoy  1 , Mohammad Saiful Islam Sajib  1 , Senjuti Saha  3
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Mass azithromycin administration: considerations in an increasingly resistant world

Yogesh Hooda et al. BMJ Glob Health. 2020 Jun.
No abstract available

Keywords: child health; control strategies; health policies and all other topics; public health; typhoid and paratyphoid fevers.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Global distribution of pathogenic Salmonella isolates with AcrB mutations associated with macrolide resistance. Genomes of four pathogenic Salmonella serovars—Enteritidis, Typhimurium, Typhi and Paratyphi A—present in the online database EnteroBase (downloaded May 2019) were screened for the presence of AcrB R717Q/L mutations. The countries are shaded based on the number of strains sequenced, and countries in white had no sequenced Salmonella strains. Countries from which AcrB R717Q/L-containing strains could be identified are highlighted, and the number of strains found in each country is shown as a pie chart, where the size of the pie represents the number of strains identified with mutation and colours represent the different serovars.
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