Surveillance and Azithromycin Treatment for Newcomers and Travelers Evaluation (ASANTE) Trial: Design and Baseline Characteristics.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Immigrants and travelers may be sources of re-emergent infection in trachoma-endemic communities close to trachoma elimination. The primary objective of the A Surveillance and Azithromycin Treatment for Newcomers and Travelers Evaluation (ASANTE) trial was to determine whether a newcomer and traveler surveillance and treatment program in addition to annual mass drug administration (MDA) would reduce Chlamydia trachomatis infection when compared to MDA alone.

Methods

ASANTE was a randomized controlled trial in 52 communities in Kongwa, Tanzania. In 26 intervention communities, monitors treated everyone in new households, in-coming children and guardians in existing households, and all persons in households who had traveled between annual MDA events. A total of 26 usua

SUBMITTER: Ervin AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5279916 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature