Trial From Niger Finds Village-Wide Prophylactic Antibiotics Contained Spread of Meningococcal Menin (IMAGE)

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Trial From Niger Finds Village-Wide Prophylactic Antibiotics Contained Spread of Meningococcal Menin

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Distribution of single doses of the oral antibiotic ciprofloxacin to residents of rural villages in the African meningitis belt reduced the number of meningitis cases during a 2017 meningitis epidemic, according to a new study in PLOS Medicine by Matthew Coldiron and colleagues from Epicentre and Médecins Sans Frontières in France, Switzerland and Niger.

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