RT Journal
A1 Friedrich MJ
T1 TReating yaws
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2012
FD February 15
VO 307
IS 7
SP 656
OP 656
DO 10.1001/jama.2012.134
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.134
AB 
Although yaws was almost wiped out 40 years ago, it has been reemerging in poor rural communities in tropical parts of Africa, Asia, and South America. The study of 250 children with yaws in Papua New Guinea randomized to receive either an oral dose of azithromycin or an intramuscular injection of benzathine benzylpenicillin found that the cure rate for the arithromycin group was not inferior to the penicillin group and there were similar numbers of drug-related adverse events.